Diabolo Menthe plot
In the fall of 1963, Anne becomes a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They have just returned from their summer trip to the beach with their father. The school starts again. For Frédérique, it is a year of her first serious love, her forays into politics (the Algerian question and "ban the bomb"), her first kiss with an older man, her first friend who abandons her, her first loss of friendship about values. For Anne, who watches her sister closely, it's been a year of her first period and learning to speak to boys, dealing with dishonest teachers, and sorting things out with her mother when she's in trouble.