Yesterday, safe French box office bet Jean Becker started shooting in Charente-Maritime on his 12th feature: La Tête en Friche (“Uncultivated Head”, working title).

Germain Chazes lives in a caravan at the bottom of his mother's garden and is considered by most to be a happy fool. One day Marguerite, a very cultured old woman, introduces him to the world of books ...

Illiterate Germain meets 90-year-old Margueritte in a park and, thanks to her, learns to read at fifty. As Margueritte gradually loses her sight, Germain promises that, when she can no longer see, he ...