“Claude Chabrol’s Le Beau Serge (1958) is widely recognized as the foundational film of the French New Wave” The Guardian Francois comes back to his home village in France after more than a decade. He notices that the village hasn’t changed much, but the people have, especially his old friend Serge who has become a drunkard. Francois now tries to find out what happened to him and tries to help him.