A young man who lives with his mother and has never known his father, heads off to look for him. He finds a cynical and Machiavellian man who works as a publisher in Paris. After he attempts to kill him, he finds filial love thanks to his uncle.

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.

Jeanne never looks at the landscape, she feels its change from hour to hour since she was a child. Since she was a little girl, Jeanne prefers girls. Today she is in love with Alice who wants a child. From Marseille to Paris, Berlin, St. Petersburg, Jeanne tells the story of the color of wheat, of women who give themselves and of what is possible at a given moment. A random fiction, the film resonates with slow love, fraternal friendships and painful filiations.