Premier mai

May 1 is Labor Day in France. Workers demonstrate in the streets before going to parties and dance halls. But the Meunier family will do neither as the mother is about to give birth. She wants to be with her mother and sister, and asks her husband and their seven-year-old son to go to a soccer game in order to be out of the way. The husband goes to the game with his son, but on the way he meets some old acquaintances who are going to derail his plans. A thoughtful study of the French working class during the mid 1950s...