弗朗索瓦是一位哲学教师。他身材高大,虽已到了不惑之年,可依旧风度翩翩。他的妻子卡特琳娜是位职业作家。他们感情很好。一天,一位名叫玛迪尔德的女学生象往常一样又上课迟到了。弗朗索瓦气愤地将这个学生赶出了教室。下课后他驱车回家,忽然发现玛迪尔德晕倒在校门外的公共汽车站上。他将玛迪尔德扶上自己的车送她回家。他发现这个女学生只有十七岁。她曾因母亲脾气暴燥,还经常试图自杀;两个哥哥参加过犯罪活动,而在十五岁时便离家出走,落脚在这座远离巴黎的小城市里。 Francois is a philosophy teacher. He is tall, although it has reached the age of perplexity, can still be elegant. His wife, Catherine, is a professional writer. They feel good. One day, a female student named Mardierde was late for class as usual. Francois angrily pushed the student out of the classroom. After class he drove home and suddenly found Madidor fainted at the bus stop outside the school. He took Madilid to his own car and sent her home. He found the girl student only seventeen years old. Her mother, who was temper-temper and often tried to commit suicide; two older brothers who had been involved in criminal activities and left home at the age of 15 and settled in a small city far from Paris.