La tete contre les mursAfter he steals money from his wealthy father one too many times, the rebellious Franois (Jean Pierre Mocky, Litan) is forcibly committed to a psychiatric institution. Labelled a delinquent and an arsonist, he endures the dehumanizing treatment reserved for society's rejects, and attempts to thwart the archaic methods of the cruel Dr. Varmont (Pierre Brasseur, Children of Paradise). Adapted by Mocky from Herv Bazin's shocking autobiographical novel,