On the red cliffs above the sea, childhood is measured by courage. Géo and his friends leap from the cliffs into the water until rivalry enters their world, pushing them into something far more dangerous – the world of first feelings.
Summer is beginning on the French Riviera – a summer five-year-old Géo will never forget. Together with a gang of children, he discovers a world of red rocks, the sea and dangerous cliff-jumping. But when a rival gang enters the scene, an innocent childhood adventure turns into a battle for territory. And between the rivals, something even stronger begins to emerge – the first sparks of friendship, attraction and love. It is a sun-drenched, childlike variation on Romeo and Juliet. Two rival gangs, a boy and a girl from opposite sides, and a world in which children's games gradually begin to echo the conflicts of adults. Yet Bruno Dumont transforms Shakespeare's tragic passion into a story about first feelings, freedom and the desire to belong – without sentimentality, but with plenty of humour, energy and tenderness. It is a singular cinematic take on childhood, at once an adventure, a story of first love and a small reflection of the adult world.
