La Première éducation sentimentale (the first version of L'Éducation sentimentale), re-adapting the themes of first love, the intoxication of desire, and failed ideological revolution (that culminated in the Revolution of 1848) to the May 68 generation through a chronicle of the parallel lives of a pair of childhood friends, the pragmatic Henri and idealistic Jules as they leave their bucolic, rural hometown to separately pursue their baccalaureate - and real world - educations.

Antoine lives with his father Gaston. The latter is a voyeur and keeps his son at home through emotional blackmail. Gaston is forced to make a financial agreement with the neighbor across the street, Goran, in order to be able to continue watching Dune, his girlfriend. Antoine meets her and runs away with her.