Before long, you will have children of your own. What I mean is having endurance and resilience. If kids had the right to vote, they would have better schools Life isn't easy. The story ends with the message of one of the teachers about child abuse, injustice, children's rights, hope, love and resilience: 'Of all mankind's injustices, injustice to children is the most despicable! Life isn't always fair, but we can fight for justice. In the end, Julien's abuse becomes public and he is taken away from his family.
Scenes include life at school, a toddler and a cat perilously playing on an open windowsill but falling down unhurt, a girl causing confusion with a bullhorn in an apartment window, Bruno showing his friends how to chat up girls, a double date at a movie theater, a child telling a dirty joke, a botched haircut, first love and first kisses. The film mixes the story of these characters with other more or less innocent childhood experiences and challenges of a number of children. Julien cannot stay awake at school after nights without sleep and constantly refuses to change for gym class in order to hide his bruises. The main characters are Patrick Desmouceaux, who is motherless and just starts getting interested in women such as his young teacher, and his friend Julien Leclou, who lives in poverty and is physically abused at home.
Small Change is a story of the struggles and yearnings of young children in Thiers, France, in the summer of 1976. Only his films The 400 Blows and The Last Metro were more popular in France. The film had a total of 1,810,280 admissions in France, making it one of Truffaut's most successful films. In English-speaking countries outside North America, the film is known as Pocket Money. Small Change ( French: L'Argent de poche) is a 1976 French film directed by François Truffaut about childhood innocence and child abuse.
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