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Boys on the front line of the First World War like to joke, tease and do childish nonsense. How else to keep your sanity between the trenches and death? Therefore, instead of fighting, young Francis takes on the role of an entertainer. With a group, he establishes a theater company to help other soldiers forget about the brutality of war for a while. In addition, he can give free rein to his penchant for crossdressing on stage. His unbridled nature immediately dazzles Pierre, and a fragile relationship begins to develop between the two men inconspicuously. In the shadow of the war, they create a safe niche where they can be themselves. But what happens when the fighting at the front subsides and the couple returns to the world of old rules and ingrained ideas about masculinity? The new film by Lukas Dhont, the director of The Girl and Close, competed at the Cannes Film Festival, where Emmanuel Macchia and Valentin Campagne jointly won the award for Best Actor.