A surly, bored French youth whiling away his time in a pizzeria fantasizes about the sultry wife of the local baker while waiting for his life to really begin. But the wake-up call comes from an unlikely source--his heavily pregnant 15-year-old sister, who takes refuge with him after escaping from her boarding school. The unlikely brother-sister pair forms a disjointed and street-smart family of lost children. Harsh urban realities mix with youthful fantasies and sly humor in this tense but luminously executed evocation of youth and identity.