Fascinating realist Belgian film about an adolescent boy, Igor, at the fringes of petty crime with his father. They smuggle and house illegal aliens. The accidental death of one of these aliens (Hamidou, an African whose wife has just arrived in Belgium) forces Igor to choose between his buried moral self and his father, a loving brute named Roger, as he has to decide if and how to take care for Hamidou’s wife as he promised the dying man. Sufficient distance and coldness in camera work allows these dilemmas to be played out without morbid sentimentality. Well acted by all. A lovely and very unusual film that speaks to the film-making of the late 60s and 70s and Goddard’s work without the pretensions of obscurity and philosophical mumbo-jumbo. A very good film. See this one!