"And now a news flash." "Eight soldiers have been killed in an ambush in northern Algeria." "Their patrol vehicle..." "Are you out of your minds?" "Move!" "4b 00:02:11,080 -- 00:02:15,230 Red Needles" "Tuesday, September 20, 1960 First day" "This crap could put your eye out!" "The Eagle pack clearly needs to let off steam." "That's good." "They can do just that on the trek I've planned." " Know the Brévent?" " Yes, chief!" "8,284 feet, opposite Mont Blanc, 13,123 feet." "Good." "You'll climb it from Chamonix." "No, on a flying carpet!" "Today, a seven-mile hike." "A night at the presbytery and, at dawn, you'll set off to climb... the Brévent!" "Good, you're following." "At the top, you'll sleep at the refuge with the Panthers who don't really need to wear uniforms to breakfast!" "You'll bivouac together in the Aiguilles Rouges reserve." "Patrick?" "No bullshit for three days, can you manage that?" "Just to see those Panther jerks!" "Why am I even here?" "I ask myself that too." "You can't put a coin on a track, so belt up!" "Hey, it wasn't my coin." "Dick!" "Mail, lads!" "Luc!" "If it's sweets, give me some." "Tsetse!" "My parents must be bored stiff to write every day." "Your brother?" "Who d'you think?" "Still nothing for me?" "Sure..." "A knee in the balls!" "Bitoun..." "Is that Jewish?" "Are you nuts?" "How many miles to the Brévent?" "You talk in hours of hiking." "We get an afternoon in Chamonix." "Can we go to see my sister skate?" "We'll change first." "Why?" "Ashamed of your fancy uniform?" "I bet we'll find some firns." " What are firns?" " Patches of eternal snow." "Great, we'll be able to ski!" "Hurry it up, lads!" "C'mon, Jean-Pierre!" "I didn't have any mail either." "Your family's on holiday in Chamonix." "They'd be dumb to write." "Tatave!" "Get that uniform off." "What's your sister's name?" "Isabelle!" "Myriam?" "Yum, yum..." "You only smile to clean your teeth." "Hands off!" "Lend me your comic." " Come on!" " No." "My dear Patrick," "Our correspondence is like an appointment I wait for and dread." "I'm afraid I'll disappoint you." "I like Camus a lot too." "I've already read "The Stranger" and "The Rebel"." "I think that if men knew what death is, they'd be less eager for their peers to experience such hideous loss." "Look!" "Isabelle!" "Your sister's the queen of skating." "Will you be back for the fête?" "There'll be fireworks." "We're not here to have fun, you know." "The cinema!" "How much for your hat?" "Cut it out!" ""The 400 Blows"!" "I love it when he nicks the typewriter." "Hey, lads," "I'd be an actor to bang chicks like her." "Can't you read?" "Banned to under-16s." "What are you doing?" "You know my mum's expecting a new baby?" " His name'll be..." " Denis." "Never repeat yourself, do you?" "Your mum swallowed a record stylus when she was pregnant!" "I fancy a choux bun." "Me too." "You don't understand." "Having resumed the reins of France," "I have, as you know, decided in her name to take a new path." "This path no longer leads to the governing of Algeria from mainland France but to an Algerian Algeria." "How about that..." "He's going to start crying." "The destiny and responsibilities of Algeria will be in Algerian hands." "He can't give Algeria to the wogs!" " Got a problem with Arabs?" " Shut it, you Commie." "I'm sick of your crap!" "You don't think my brother's sick of two years of that shit?" "That's enough!" "Screw it!" "Want my fist in your face?" "I'm sick of fighting." "Jew, Arab, same difference." "What is it?" "Why wear dark glasses all the time?" "To show off." "I got our baby brother something." "Just watch the screen!" "What're you doing?" "Ogling." "All these chicks here, they make my nuts go mushy." "Fifteen." "Maybe... thirteen." " Sixteen." " Zero, moron!" "She could be your mum!" "She looks a bit uptight too." "I guess." "Two." "You're being mean." "Four." "Nineteen." "And three quarters." "Thank you." "You're welcome." "That film was crap!" "I often remember our holiday in La Ciotat three years ago." "I was sure I'd never know such happy times again." "When you left, you said goodbye with two quick kisses." "That innocent gesture seemed both awful and wonderful." "I am much harder now and the way I reject flirts scares me at times." "You want to be a photographer?" "I'd like to be a special correspondent." "Growing up, Patrick, means making childhood dreams come true." "So let's dream while you take lots of photos for later..." "Wednesday, September 21, 1960 Second day" "Let's get going!" "See you wimps." "Screw you, dickhead!" "We'll wipe you out up there." "If you make it." "Right, let's get going." " Where do spuds grow?" " In fields, like noodles." " Noodles grow in fields?" " Ever see that, you spud?" "If I'm a spud, you're a real noodle!" "See that glacier?" "Fall in and you come out 50 years later." "I know." "The ice takes up to 40 years to descend." "You'll end up a teacher." " A priest, the way he looks." " A rabbi, you mean." "Believers!" "There is but one God." "Demand the real one!" "Will you miss school?" "I have no choice." "The market fish stall with my parents." "How about you?" "I'm going to high school." "I wish I hadn't passed that exam now." "I failed first time round." " What's up?" " My tooth." "It had me awake all night." " Want this?" " No thanks." "It must be freezing up there." "Don't worry, your fat'll keep you warm." "Think my little brother will be born in the mountains?" "Maybe it's not a boy." "I know it is, okay." "I'm really into the country." "Dad takes me every Sunday in his Citroen DS with hydraulic suspension." "Your dad has a DS?" "I doubt it." "Why?" "A worker can't afford it." "What do you know, toffee-nose?" "Look!" "A seagull!" " Where?" " There!" "You must be good at biology, Dumbo." "That's an eagle." "Like us." "We're not much like him." "I'd be happier with him guiding us." "Oh, yeah?" "50 steps at a walk, 50 at a run." "Let's go!" "Doesn't he seem a bit mixed-up lately?" "Let's go!" "My father keeps telling people, as if obsessed, there'll never be another war." "I'm speechless each time." "When I show him the headlines, he says," ""That's totally different." "Besides, it doesn't concern girls. "" "That's right," "France is at war and my father acts as if he didn't know." "Or perhaps he doesn't care." "Sometimes I feel I have no choice:" "I have to leave this home." "You'll see me turn up one day, my little case in my hand." " Want to take a break?" " Yeah!" "Come on." "I'll go on ahead." "The flora here is magnificent." "Always showing off." "Are you ever nice?" "Is there an age to kiss a girl?" "How do you mean?" "If you haven't kissed a girl before 20, is that normal?" "Don't worry about it, you have time." "It's Adrien..." "Your brother?" "He's got a hang-up about it." "The jerk wants to desert." "To end up in jail?" "Or caught by the Fellaghas and that's no holiday!" "The Algerian smile..." "To create God, Dumbo, there had to be another God." "God couldn't create himself." "What's he saying?" "I'll definitely never be a priest." "They left the communion wine!" "Vomitous!" "It's turned to vinegar." "No, Tatave!" "Don't!" "Holy water is water with God diluted in it!" "Move your ass, comrade, or I'll kick your bloody behind!" "Move it!" "I didn't think you'd leave me in peace." "I thought something was up, that you were sick." "You've put my mind at rest." "Move it!" "Patrick, my bootlace..." "I'll see to it, Dumbo." "Is it true Tatave's dad has a DS?" "Maybe in his dreams." "Tatave's dad died two years ago." "Wow..." "I didn't know." "Keep that to yourself." "Hey, lads!" "It might rain!" "Who is Myriam to you exactly?" "Myriam..." "She's my friend." "My ideal woman." " Nice tits?" " Cut the crap!" "Is Isabelle a friend too?" "Isabelle?" "Hold on, that's not the same thing." "Myriam... she's bright, she's magical..." "Bollocks!" "How can a guy love one girl and flirt with another?" "Flirt?" "Yeah!" "So you marry some girls and sleep with others?" "I don't give a damn about Isabelle!" "Try a new approach and it may work." " Gimme that." " My biscuits!" "Here, Tsetse." "Shit, you're red!" "Going to explode or what?" "No more radio." "The batteries are dead!" "Want one?" " Why doesn't Isabelle love me?" " What?" "She doesn't love me." "I know." "That's why I'm glad to be having a brother." "I hope he'll love me at least." "Got any brothers and sisters?" "My father would have wanted other children but... my mother wasn't keen." "Wow..." "Do you know why?" "It's since I was born." "She hates being touched." "I bet Isabelle likes you." "And I bet she loves you." "Even if she acts all proud with Patrick." " Tatave!" " Present!" ""Dear brother," ""I'm making the most of a moment's peace to send you," ""with all my love... "" ""You know, here... "" ""Hoping to see you all soon" ""and hold you in my arms. "" ""You know, I've got muscles now" ""from running around the mountains like this. "" ""... to see you all soon" ""and hold you... "" " Tatave!" " Present!" "Stop saying "present", it's a pain!" "Jean-Pierre said I'd get my ass kicked ten times if I didn't say it." "If he can't piss anyone off, he pisses himself off." "I'll headbutt you in your shitty face!" "What a stink!" "Jesus, a giant blister." "Can I go to hospital?" "Any other blisters?" "Yes, me." "Let's go." "Hand it over." " I'll see to it." " Give me a break!" "Those must be the Aiguilles Rouges." "He doesn't know where he's going." "And we follow like jerks." "He knows what he's doing!" "It takes brains to be a patrol leader, right, Tatave?" "I needed 14 years, 3 weeks and 5 days to admit 1 + 1 is 2, so patrol leader..." "Don't you believe anything?" "People talk rubbish." "So I've found the solution:" "I don't believe anything." "I'm never disappointed." "All the same, all this beauty is..." "It has to be God's work." "Your blister?" "No, my feet are okay." "It's my legs now." "My thighs next, then total paralysis!" "If only it could get as far as his mouth!" " Why are you in a reform home?" " You know that?" "Everyone knows." "I was a kleptomaniac." "What's that?" "Is it serious?" "Someone who steals all the time, in shops, grocery stores, at school..." "I stole anything." "I couldn't stop myself." "Wow..." "Is there a cure?" "I worked with a psychologist." "What's that?" "He helps figure out why you do weird things." "And you know now?" "We're supposed to be on holiday..." "With 19 and three-quarters warm in bed..." "She could be the mother of my kids..." "I don't even have her phone number." "You think I stand any chance at all with her?" "Mature women don't always like virgins." "Are you crazy?" "I've had truckloads of chicks before!" "Shut your mouth!" "What's this?" "The cable-car station, bombed out." "Hey, this isn't Algeria though." "Shut it." "It's not just your brother!" "I have my whole family there." "Oh yeah?" "This must be the old station." "The new one can't be far away." " It can't be the glacier..." " Can't be?" " Just an hour to the refuge." " How d'you know that?" " It'll take us 4 hours to turn back." " I get the message." "I don't want to end up lost in the dark." " We're not lost!" " We soon will be!" "We'll find the Brévent by flashlight?" "You really need to piss me off, huh?" "Let's get going." "Piss off!" "You bastard!" "Who the hell is he, giving us orders?" "Patrick, I'm coming!" "Bruno!" "Eric, wait for me!" "Oh, hell..." " Finished your stunts?" " Yeah." "You have the food." "You can't let us starve." "Is the refuge far now?" "Shut up, midget, and get climbing!" "Give me your hand, Dumbo, I'll guide you." "Dumbo!" "My shoulder..." "Okay?" "Gently..." "Are you okay?" "Let's go." "Watch your step." "Hurry, it'll be dark in an hour." "Hey, Bruno, Mars must be like this, right?" "By the year 2000, we'll be able to go there by rocket." "Just think, we'll be 54 by then." "We'll be pot-bellied wrecks with loads of kids." "Speak for yourself." "I can't wait for the year 2000!" "Think we'll still be friends?" "You bet." "We'll make a vow." "What vow?" "To be together to see in the year 2000 whatever." "If you want." "Where?" "On Mars, of course!" "There's nothing here." "The Gobi Desert on top of Kilimanjaro!" "I don't get it." "We climbed up here for zilch?" "I knew we should have turned back." " We're buggered!" " Shit!" "Could we sleep in there?" "Yeah, if we can break the door down." "So where's your crap refuge?" "Hey, I'm in the shit as much as you are." "The leader really screwed us!" ""Sleep in the summit refuge. "" "Where are the Panther jerks?" "They're smart, they headed back down." "So do we die now or wait a little?" "Look here, your cheap irony is pissing me off!" "I'm sick of it!" "Look at all these stones!" "My shoulder..." "I want to cry." "So cry, damn it, and stop pissing us off!" "Let's head back the way we came." "How'll you do it in the dark, dickhead?" "Don't talk to me like a dog!" "Open, damn you!" " Here, Bruno!" " Thanks." "Hey, look at this!" "We're just checking it out, okay?" "Sweets!" "I'll just stock up!" "Why are you paying?" "Lads, come and see!" "Clock the titties!" " Lovely boobs!" " What?" "Boobies, knockers, mams, bazoomas, bumpers..." "And I thought you only liked food!" "D'you prefer brunettes or blondes?" "Redheads, like you!" " What's that village?" " Servoz." "It can't be far." " Well?" " They're raiding the place." " What?" " You bet." "You'll be in for it." " I did nothing!" " Move!" "Have you got mush for brains?" "Are you stupid?" "Think no one will connect us to that?" "That settles it." "We have to leave." "Listen to me." "Clean this place up at the double." "Then let's get out of here." "Move it!" "Come on." "Well done." "Happy now?" " Know what?" " No..." "We'll head down to Servoz, the nearest village." "It'll take an hour or two." "Read that in a comic book?" "I don't want to end up in a cell because of your bullshit." "We didn't rob a bank!" " True." " You can talk!" "A repeat offender!" "If we're caught, you'll get it." "Why me?" "I stole nothing." "I just wanted a nap!" "We don't have a record!" "They'll blame you." "Not Christian but that's how it is." "Servoz, here we come." "Thanks, Patrick." "Think the cops will arrest us?" "Maybe they'll think it was a bear." "There are bears here?" "If my dad finds out, he'll lock me up for the next five years." "That's all?" "Mine will kill me." " He's that strict?" " You bet!" "He's a high school chief supervisor." "What does yours do?" "He was in real estate." "And now?" "He can't work since we arrived in France." "Freaking out, Dumbo?" "With all the animals around, eagles, bears, spiders..." "You bet I'm freaking out." "There are dahus too." "What are dahus?" "Tiny animals whose right legs are shorter than the left legs to run on the mountainside." "How do they turn round?" "That's right." " How?" " It's simple actually." "They never turn round." "They keep going in the same direction." "Like a clock's hands." "So what scares you?" "I don't know." "I've never really thought about it." "Loneliness maybe." "My dad, he tries to scare me but it doesn't work for some reason." "I'm scared for mine." "I'm scared of stinking of fish around the clock." "Like my parents." "Luc..." "Know what a generator's for?" "It turns mechanical energy into electricity." "And with a copper coil, you can produce current." "Does it hurt a lot?" "When it's used for torture, yeah, it hurts a lot." "Even with my specs, I'm blind here!" "Hold on, lads." "We'll rope up." "You see, Eric, they call that solidarity." "When one falls, everyone tumbles!" "Got nothing more absurd?" "Got any more crap comments, you two?" "Go ahead, just try me and see." "Yes, sarge." "Be careful!" "Patrick!" "Let's cut the crap for tonight." "Settle down here." "We'll wait for daylight to move on." "You're lucky to live in Paris." "To feel less isolated in this petty bourgeois town," "I buy the Communist daily paper." "I don't really understand it all yet." "I think politics should reduce inequality rather than increase it." "I know you'll agree with me there." "If my father finds the paper, he'll murder me." "My mother suspects something but since she doesn't want my demise, she'll keep the secret." "Last week, she pulled out the stops to return me to the right path:" "She bought me new shoes." "To be honest, I love them." "She has no self-respect but she has taste." "Thursday, September 22, 1960 Third day" "What's up, Dumbo?" "Had a nightmare?" "Know why dreams were invented?" " To scare me." " No." "So we don't get bored while we sleep." "My dream is to cook an egg under the Arc de Triomphe." "How much to cut the crap?" "10 francs an hour?" "20?" "Name your price." "Much more." "Six o'clock!" "Are you sadists or what?" "I didn't sleep a wink." "What do we do now?" "We turn back!" "You get to decide now?" "We pack our gear and head down to Servoz." "I'm shivering..." "Damn..." "Ask your maid to make you some hot cocoa." "Chin up, Dumbo." "Look at the sun." "It'll soon warm us up." "Why isn't the damn sun shining here?" "Because we're on the ubac." "What's the ubac?" "The slope hidden from the sun." "The adret is in full sunlight." "How do you know all that?" "I get bored easily so I read a lot." "When I get bored, I don't read, I wait for it to pass." " Does it?" " No." "We can't go any further." "We'll turn back to find the way." "I'm fucking sick of this!" "I'm not going back!" "Let's make two groups." "We'll stand twice as much chance." "How will we meet up again?" "We'll use whistles to communicate in Morse." "All okay." "Danger." "Okay." "Go with Eric, Guy and Bruno." "We'll meet back here if it doesn't work." "Oh, yeah?" "And what do we get?" "A candy bar?" "A John Wayne movie?" "If we make it." "Shut it!" "Save it for later!" "Come on." "Wait for us." "What?" "Which way did you go?" "I can't remember." "That way." "We're stuck." "We'll see you further down." "No, go to the right!" "You think so?" "You bet." "Wait for me." "I'm slipping..." "Dumbo..." "Are you okay, Dumbo?" "Grab my mitt." "Hold your hand out." "What'll they call your little brother?" "Denis?" "Denis..." "What if Denis could see you now?" "He can't see me." "He hasn't even been born." "When I tell him what a jerk you were..." "How you couldn't hold your hand out." "You haven't even shown me his present." "It's a tiny silver spoon." "Eric!" "What?" "It's too tough for me." "So go back up." "I'm carrying on." "Don't be so pig-headed!" "You can see it's impossible!" "Jean-Pierre, try going that way!" "Bloody hell, I'm fucking sick of this!" "Those assholes teach us to find directions with compasses or the stars." "Really useful system in the mountains!" "And I get the dirty linen." "Don't wash it in public." "Pain in the ass!" "I'm sick of it!" "Come on..." "Let's head back up to meet them." "Wise decision." "Worthy of a great leader." "That's nasty sunburn." "I'm cold." "I'm freezing." "Put this on." "Come on." "We're nearly there." "Help!" "Help me!" "Isn't Eric with you?" "No." "He wouldn't listen." "What's the jerk doing?" "We have to go." "And leave him?" "Bruno's in a bad way, Dumbo's wiped out..." "As for Jean-Pierre..." "We have to go." "But what about Eric?" "Don't worry." "He'll manage." "He's so stubborn, he took another path." " We have to get going." " Every man for himself." "Got a better idea?" "Know what?" "You take over and get us out of this." "I've had enough!" "My pack!" "We wait till Dumbo and Bruno can't move?" "After that, will you carry them back up?" "We're out of food, we're freezing..." "We're going back up." "Let's dry off while we wait for Eric." "Okay, let's go." "Maybe Eric's with the Panthers." "Weren't we meeting the Panthers here?" "About time." "I was beat." " Tatave!" " Present!" "This is the last of it." "Thanks, Luc." "We'll starve to death." "No, Eric has the food." "He'll be here soon." "Aren't you sick of playing the trusty scout?" "I thought I had some choc left." "Holy cow, you've got your period!" "What's a period?" "Actually, once a month, girls piss blood." "They piss blood?" "That's vomitous." "It's nature." "They can be in love all the same." "Ask the great Manitou for a light." "And something to eat too." "I wouldn't mind a thick bison sandwich." "30 francs an hour." "But keep it shut!" "New francs or old?" "Calm down." "I told you not to do it." "It's made him mad." "Okay, Dumbo?" "Peeing in a font is a sin." "You pissed in a font?" "He'll have to admit it in confession." "Tell me why we always obey orders." "We haven't been drafted!" ""Go there" and we go." ""Do this" and we do it." "My brother's sick of obeying orders!" "You've no idea what they tell him to do." "It's only normal he should feel like deserting." "Adrien and I are nothing alike." "Our grandparents raised us." "It's only natural." "I want you to read it." "And the others too." "You've no idea what they tell him to do." "He's never kissed a girl and he has to slaughter rebels!" "Okay, Jean-Pierre?" "The letter..." "Don't show it to Dumbo, okay?" "You know, Adrien, he wouldn't have hurt a fly." "Here, wipe your face." "What?" "You should stay with the others." "No, I'm coming with you." "It's not a good idea." "Maybe but it's the only one I have." "With Eric lost and a storm coming, we can't just sit here." "We'll all come with you." "Dumbo, it's three hours to Les Houches." "Wait for the storm to blow over and we'll fetch help." "Cheer up!" " Luc..." " What?" "Can I have another tablet?" "There's only one left." "And it's for Bruno." "Jean-Pierre's right." "When my dad talks about the war, it's like being there." "Unlike us, our folks knew it." "Well, not all of them." "Mine did." "What's on your mind, Dumbo?" "Not even a dry place to sit." "I don't care." "I'll love a little sister too." "How old's your sister?" " She hasn't been born yet." " No, stupid, the other." "Isa?" "16 and a half." "Born in 1944, then." "Dad says you watch girls from 1944, you never know who their dads are." "Your dad's dead." "We're going crazy!" "We're going to die!" "No, Dumbo." "The lightning struck so the storm will move on." "Incredible!" "The sly devil kept the batteries!" "I put back all the chocs." "First, keep out of my pack." "And second, I paid." "Screw the batteries." "With the chocs, we wouldn't be starving." "Shut it, you damn thief!" "Watch it, you goddam religious bigot!" "You're out of your mind!" "Guy, help me!" "Let's light a fire for Bruno." "Put that down!" "My magazine!" "Jean-Pierre..." "Are you okay?" "You've had a dump?" "No." "Why?" "Something stinks." "Tatave, cheer us up with a daft remark." "Our father that art in heaven, stay there, we're in the shit." "Their crap methods never work." "A miracle!" "Tsetse, you can warm your feet now and keep your nuts warm!" "I knew it." "You're not cured at all." "A night at the refuge, then the ridge walk." "The Brévent refuge has been closed for ages now." "He should have known." "But it's on the map." "In the early evening..." "Sarrazin!" "In the early evening, you reached the top of the Brévent?" "Save them." " Chief?" " Fetch my dog." "When you saw you had no shelter, why didn't you follow the planned route?" "That's right!" "Why go to Servoz?" "Night was falling so..." "We were drawn to the lights." "You headed down to the gorge, as far as the cliffs?" " Yes." " Almost." "We turned back and..." "Rosset!" "Enough!" "Stop sniggering and answer the questions!" "Look at this asshole..." "Okay, stand up!" "Stand up, you moron!" "Enough of this bullshit!" "You'll get worse if the parents press charges." "And in their shoes, that's what I'd do." "I had two patrols up there." "One turned back so I thought Patrick would too." "Sure..." "My granddad's taking a train here." " How did he know?" " No idea." "I'll need your pal's shirt or socks." "Something with his smell." "In my pack." "The dirty linen is some use at last." "Friday, September 23, 1960 Fourth day" "If you want to be happy, Patrick, learn to lighten up." "I find you a little too serious." "Life may be worth nothing but nothing is worth life." "I'm almost a woman and my father sees that as a serious failing." "Some days," "I look at my mother and it really scares me." "I'm going to leave this place." "We can't wake Bruno." " Tatave!" " Jean-Pierre!" "This way?" "Yeah." "We tried down there but got nowhere." "I'll rope you to me." "You others, spread out fifty yards on each side." "What's a cropper?" "It means an accident, serious or otherwise." " And that pole?" " The pole?" "Routine, to bring a body back if need be." "Okay, Max, let's go!" "The rescue team." "Well?" "Nothing on this side." "He can't be lower down." "Or he fell in the Diosaz." "In that case..." "We'll search higher up." "He may be trapped in a ravine." " We'll head up on the left." " Take Max with you." "Okay, chief." "Shall we go?" " Want to take a break?" " No." "We'll take one anyway." "I should feel safer with you, but I feel the opposite." "That's because you're aware of the danger at last, kid." "Eric wanted to turn back." "We argued all the way up and..." "I insisted on carrying on." "Sometimes, you get it wrong." "Are you even listening to me?" "If he dies, it'll be my fault!" "How did I know what was right?" "They send us up here like jerks..." "Are you listening to me?" "Take this." "I'm listening." "You can't understand." "You never get angry." "I'll tell you something, kid." "If your pals followed you this far, they got it just as wrong as you did." "They were under my responsibility." "You can always say no." "When an order's absurd, saying no... is an brave act." "You can come in now." " Okay?" " Luckily, they made a fire." "It counteracted the hypothermia." "Impressive abscess." "I'm fine but they won't let me out." "Half-frozen, that's fine?" "A sprained shoulder's nothing." " And you, dimwit?" " Pneumonia, dead any day now." "Chicken, it's just a cold." "Chicken?" "Are you okay?" "The fever's fallen..." "Any news of Eric?" "I'm cold." "Don't worry, kid, we'll find your pal." "Right, Max?" "We'll find his pal." " Why not check the other side?" " You can't get through the gorge." "You don't know Eric." "He'll stop at nothing to be right." "Yes, Max..." "Come and see, kid." "An animal must have got in." "A dahu, I reckon." "A whole group of dahus even." "They're mischievous beasts." "Especially the younger ones." "We can't file a complaint against dahus." "That'd be absurd." "Right, kid?" "You can stop calling me that." "I'm sick of it." " You can't eat anymore?" " No." "Holy cow!" "Double!" "Ask your sister what she thinks." " Tatave..." " Present!" "I'd like you to be my sister Sophie's godfather." "You lucky devil." "I'll go and see Mum." "See you later?" "Playing or not?" "Why let Eric go off alone?" "From the very start, he had just one idea..." "Heading back down." "Maybe to see you again." "Do my Algerian origins or nasty temper make me so rebellious?" "But young people here should rise up too." "As soon as your mother heard, she put me on a train." "Why didn't she come?" "She's tired." "She can't get used to life here." "She's always cold, even in summer." "How about you?" "Are you okay?" "It's beautiful, isn't it, Dad?" "Yes, it's beautiful." "Very beautiful." "But the mountains can trick you." "It's not just the mountains that trick you." "De Gaulle is dumping us." "Algeria's over for us." "Saturday, September 24, 1960 Fifth and final day" "Where's my son?" "Where's my son?" "Sir, please follow me." "Come this way, please." "30 men are out looking for him but the weather conditions are poor." "But have you found him?" " No, we haven't." " That's impossible!" "There are 30 men..." "Almost..." "Your turn." "Here, it's your turn." "What's the matter?" "We'll never go back to Algeria." "That's tough." "The eight dead soldiers are brought back to France" "We found this in the gorge." "You recognize all this?" "Eric's?" "Of course they'll find him." "Don't fret." "Don't worry." "You know your son." "As stubborn as his mother." "I'll call you later." "Take care." "Looks like Napoleon." "I heard he was back around here." " I see something over there." " He got through the gorge?" "Granddad!" "You had a good journey?" "Thank you." " Excuse me." " Jean-Pierre..." "I have some bad news." "You were almost the death of us, kid." "You're crazy!" "What's the matter?" "What's your name?" "My name's Adrien." "Well..." "Goodbye, Adrien." "Mum!" "Darling!" "Everything's fine." "I'm here..." "I'll leave you with this question." "What is friendship for you?" "While I await your reply, I send you all my affection, hoping to have a long letter and photos from you soon." "I embrace you with all my heart." "Myriam." "There, dear Myriam, my adventure with the Eagles." "Eric was lucky." "He got out of the gorge and, although injured, got to the other side where the rescue team could spot him." "Dumbo wants to be a patrol leader." "After the camp, Tatave was hired as a bellboy at the Grand Hotel." "Luc and his parents moved down south, near the Mediterranean." "Guy went back to his studies to be a dentist or a confectioner." "Bruno works in his parents' fish shop." "After his brother was killed in Algeria," "Jean-Pierre joined the Trotskyites." "As for me..." "Here they are!" "Who gave me these hoodlums?" "Get back to your beds and make it snappy!" "Move it!" "One last one!" "You asked what friendship is." "I have a lot of pals but I only have one friend." "You." "I hope we'll grow old saying we made the right choices and that you'll always be my friend."