在这部孩子们剧情片中,玛格丽特·杜拉斯作品。通过家庭内部关系透射出杜拉斯的生活意见，故事聚焦于七岁小男孩埃内斯托身上，他入学几周后便因为不喜欢学习选择辍学，坚信在这个精神荒芜的世界上知识毫无用处，忧郁难当之下开始推崇自己的理论。父亲无法理解儿子的行为，但是无论他显得多么奇怪，格格不入，母亲始终支持着他。(豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组)
7 year-old boy Ernesto intrigues people around him for several reasons. Despite such a young age, he looks like a man on his 40's and also seems a little more intelligent than any of his peers - and the latter fact is what causes him to quit school, refusing to attend it because he doesn't want to learn the things he does not know. His family is very supportive of his actions, even though they don't have any clue of what's to become of him; at the same time the school headmaster and a journalist are concerned about Ernesto's real motivations for leaving school.
