A female coming of age story set during the spring and summer of 1968, the film is not a sequel but can be considered a companion piece to its predecessor.

[3] Seventeen-year-old middle-class Anne (Elise Caron), runs away with her working-class boyfriend Frederic (Philippe Lebas) and his friend Bruno (Francois Cluzet) after a violent fight with her mother.

[7][8] Film studies scholar Carrie Tarr has written that audiences may have been confused by Kurys treatment of May '68 as nearly devoid of protest and politics, instead focusing on an explicitly female personal drama, as opposed to the generally male-centered view of the student revolts.

She also notes that Kurys had had to rewrite the script due to budget constraints which made reenacting the barricading of Paris streets impossible, and further cut explicitly political scenes out in the editing process to further emphasize the teenagers' story.

[10] While Tarr writes that the film does not depict abortion, love triangles, or the subjectivity of the female central character as well as other films,[11] its autobiographical elements, its pairing of personal narrative with larger, historical events[12] and other connections with the rest of Kurys' filmography mark it as an essential part of her work as auteur.