A small-time crook, hunted by the authorities for a car theft and the murder of a police officer, attempts to persuade a hip American journalism student to run away with him to Italy.
A one-night stand becomes a tumultuous affair when a man gets back to his wife and kids. A boy deprived of parental warmth and the acceptance of his peers turns his despair toward a life of petty ...
Why 1969? In part, because the term French New Wave, associated with Francois Truffaut, Jean Luc-Godard, Alain Resnais, Claude Chabrol and Louis Malle had gathered currency in the 1960s.