Paul is young, just demobbed from national service in the French Army, and dishillusioned with civilian life. As his girlfriend builds herself a career as a pop singer, Paul becomes more isolated from his friends and peers, 'the children of Marx and Coca Cola', as the credits announce, and their social and emotional politics. This is a collage of observations about young people in Paris in 1965, a preview perhaps of the confrontations of 1968. There is humour, satire and real perception in Godard's direction, he is at his most acerbic, and the beginninigs of his foray into political satire. Congratulations: Your vote has been cast