Volker Schlöndorff transposes Bertolt Brecht’s late-expressionist work to latter-day 1969. Poet and anarchist Baal lives in an attic and reads his poems to cab drivers. At first feted and later rejected by bourgeois society, Baal roams through forests and along motorways, greedy for schnapps, cigarettes, women and men: ‘You have to let out the beast, let him out into the sunlig...。马塞尔(布鲁诺·克雷默 Bruno Cremer 饰)成长在一个破碎的家庭之中,父亲离开了他,他和母亲过着相依为命的生活。为了养家糊口,马塞尔跟随着母亲搬到巴黎郊区的一个街区中,母亲整日忙于工作,留给马塞尔的只有无穷无尽的孤独。 马塞尔和母亲所在的,并非一个太平的社区,这里处处充斥着暴力,洋溢着犯罪的气息。一次偶然中,马塞尔结识了名为让(弗朗索瓦·尼格雷特 François Négret 饰)的男孩。让是一个终日游手好闲的小混混,在让的耳濡目染之下,马塞尔渐渐走上了歧途。刚开始孩子们只是小偷小摸,渐渐的,事态开始向不可控制的方向发展。。性格怪癖的老实人于洛来到不列塔尼半岛的海滨小城度假,但他把那儿弄得一团糟,因为不管他要干什么,事情迟早会走样……。