It's the last summer before the start of the school year.
Léo and Rémi are inseparable.
One runs, the other runs behind.
One pedals, the other is in his wheel.
One poses, the other draws.
In the evening, they invite each other to sleep and tell each other stories on the pillow.
Leo's parents see them go back and forth in the field of flowers they cultivate.
Those of Rémi always add a cover at the table.
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Lukas Dhont picks them up on the edge of childhood - the age at which one can still play knights with wooden swords and tell each other everything.
Preadolescence, we say today, no longer quite a child but not yet an adolescent.
Léo and Rémi float in this intermediate state with a smile glued to their lips, a fluffy world where you don't yet try to look like others, where you don't care, in life or in death.
Lukas Dhont films his two actors (Eden Dambrine and Gustav De Waele) with great delicacy.
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