After spending years living with his grandma, Daniel joins his mother in the South of France. Living modestly as a seamstress, she is unable to afford his high school education and sends him to work as a mechanic’s apprentice. He begins to discover desire and embarks on his sentimental journey.

Like Catherine Breillat and Harmony Korine after him, Jean Eustache has no illusions about how working-class adolescence can go. Libido is awakened not floridly but grubbily, young potential is squandered to sad pragmatism, and My Little Loves pricks with coarse and honest passion.