directors: Maïlys Audouze
23 minutes | France

His voice is firm and serious. The director is sitting in front of him. Using the words of a “former tough guy”, a man tells his own story: an injustice experienced at 12, a dirty revenge which turned out to be lethal, and then, several years in a penitentiary institution for teenagers in the 70s. His daughter (the director) has found his detention record. She knows more than he does about his childhood. He has to come to terms with these revelations, first. Later, he will go back to the mechanical workshop of the penitentiary institution, with one of his former “teachers” – an intense experience. That’s the story of “a poor guy who became a thief” and who will get his ankle tattooed again (as an indelible mark) with the “Saint of thugs”…

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