Back to school. Ben feels his classmates have changed. He'd like Claire to take an interest in him, but his weight is too much for him. This school year will make them all grow up and understand that it's not what you look like that's important, but what you feel...
La Vie en gros is adapted from Mikäel Ollivier's 2001 novel of the same name. A first-person narrative with Ben as narrator, it has won numerous literary awards.