The Rebel

Pierre Jouffroy, twenty, the son of a worker killed on the job, finds comfort only in his little sister, Nathalie. After a communist rally where his anger erupts, he meets Alain and Corinne, radical university students. Caught breaking into a car, Pierre is taken in by Hubert Beaufils, a gay property developer, whose advances he rejects before knocking him out and robbing him. When his mother dies, Pierre becomes responsible for Nathalie, but without work, risks losing her to public care. He reluctantly accepts another offer from Beaufils, who has found a way to see him again-but once more, Pierre refuses his manipulative propositions. Putting Alain's ideas into action, he coldly kills Beaufils in the street. Abandoned by his "friends," Pierre is arrested leaving a cinema. Nathalie bursts into tears. As he's taken away, Pierre tells her: "Don't cry, Nathalie... You have to fight."