Etienne is a teenage boy growing up in Rouen, coming to terms with his gay sexuality and the fact that his widowed mother is dating one of his teachers.

This movie, from Olivier Ducastel and Jacques Martineau, who directed Drôle de Félix, is presented through the supposed medium of Etienne's "video diary".

A tiresome, even fraudulent conceit, given that the movie is obviously too professionally edited and composed to be genuine amateur handiwork, yet not well enough made to explore its own dramatic potential.

Etienne's mother is played by Ariane Ascaride, a veteran of the movies of Robert Guédiguian, which this in some ways resembles with its strong sense of family and place. But every thing is hampered by this coy and cliched home-video business, with characters perpetually saying: "Are you filming now... ? Are you recording... ? You're really getting on my nerves." Mm.