When Esse (Nicolas Duvauchelle, in his debut feature role) a young apprentice baker, loses his job, he is drawn in to a dark underworld of gangs and petty crime. Zonca delivers a raw and gripping portrait of life on the margins of society, as a boy on the verge of adulthood is pulled in by the thrill of crime.
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