Based on Emmanuel Carrere′s novel, the film elaborately portrays the passage from childhood to adulthood, a reoccuring theme of director Claude Miller. As the opening of a ski school approaches, Miss Grimm, an instructor with a great sense of responsibility, holds an orientation for the parents. However, Nicholas′ father does not trust the school bus and gives his boy a ride to the camp a day behind schedule, but then drives off with Nicolas′ luggage still in the car. A naughty classmate, Hodkann, volunteers to look after Nicolas and offers him a pair of pajamas. Nightmares from the fear of wetting his bed alternate with terrible daydreams to trouble the weak and imaginative Nicolas. Meanwhile, a boy is found missing from a nearby village. With the use of Nicolas′ vivid imagination, Hodkann uncovers a truth that is more terrifying than Nicholas′ nightmares. Through a sensitive child′s point of view, the film criticizes the cowardice and duplicity of grownups as well as depicting the striking reality of a crime. (K. Jin Yoon)