Enzo, a teenager who rejects the expectations of his wealthy parents, takes an apprenticeship at a building site where he develops a crush on Vlad, a Ukrainian bricklayer who is struggling with whether or not to return home and fight in the Russo-Ukrainian War.
Enzo, 16, defies his bourgeois family’s expectations by starting a masonry apprenticeship, a path far removed from the prestigious life they had envisioned for him. In their chic villa in the sun-drenched South of France, tensions simmer as relentless questions and pressures weigh on Enzo’s future and dreams. On the construction sites, however, Vlad, a charismatic Ukrainian colleague, shakes up Enzo’s world and opens the door to unexpected possibilities.‘It is another powerful, absorbing picture from Campillo and a fitting swan song for Laurent Cantet’ (★★★★ The Guardian).
