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The kind of story which makes the bourgeoisie fantasize: respectable married Parisian lawyer has a short affair with a waitress while staying in province to work on a case, waitress becomes pregnant, illegitimate child ends up in foster care, foster carers beat up and exploit the child, child becomes a criminal once grown up... except that there's a twist. It's as if these movies were made to order, to discourage married men from having affairs, or convince them to use a condom at least... Most of the movie isn't very realistic, for one thing French people love their paperwork, whether you're looking for a place to live or trying to find work... you simply cannot steal someone's identity that easily, even if the victim is a nobody. Also foster children are often taken to the psychiatrist and fed drugs, so they're definitely not learning to drive a motorbike or keeping such a slim waist that they get a job as a gigolo!