Pierre Dufresne (April 7th, 1927 - October 31st, 1984) was an actor mostly known for his role of Fardoche in Passe-Partout (1977). He died of a heart attack on October 31st, 1984.
A war vet finds out that a former prostitute had his baby. Doubting it's his, he gives it away, so she reports him. Twenty years later, she still wants to find her son. She meets a young man and falls in love, but the vet's prison term ends.
An unemployed man with individualist and pacifist values is inevitably brainwashed by society and the mass media to conform to the dominant ideology and embrace war. His soul is destroyed but his heart cannot be conquered.