Jean-Marie Bénard

Adolescent French suburban lower-middle-class nerd Marc Morel was happy being the teacher's pet and school representative in a Latin competition. Until he meets and instantly falls in love with fatherless semi-illiterate shop clerk and ditto-daughter Martine Pérez. As his overbearing father Robert feared, stripling hormones run wild at the expense of academic future-building, but paternal authority is overruled by 'young love', which even yields peer-acceptance. Cool big brother Christian, a photographer, tries a more understanding approach, but even that runs into trouble.

Ahmad Akbar is a cineast with big projects. He wants to launch a cinema place for Black filmmakers, somewhere in the desert, far from LA and Hollywood. Cineland. That's the name of the place, man. Cineland! Akbar makes the American Dream too - a Black version of the Amercian Dream. The White version was fragile. The Black version is desperate.