L'Été en Pente Douce plot
Fane lives in a shabby city quarter, where he spends a lot of time in a cafe with his friends. One day he gets his neighbor's girlfriend Lilas in exchange for a rabbit. The next day he learns that his mother has died and he drives with Lilas to the southern rural village where she lived. He meets his brother Mo again, who has been disabled since he played with a hand grenade as a child. Fane wants to marry Lilas, become a writer and care for Mo outside the hospital. He wants to make something of his life, but the hostility and bigotry of the villagers throws a spanner in the works.