Trapped behind the high walls of an austere orphanage in suburban Paris, Paul (Jean Scandel) has only ever known one home. His chance to discover the great wide world comes when a bohemian couple, Celestine (Valerie Karsenti, Scenes de menages) and Borel (Eric Elmosnino, Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life), take him back to their countryside home. Borel is the gamekeeper for a vast estate in the untamed French countryside of Sologne. Initially recalcitrant and rebellious, Paul becomes close with the elusive poacher- and Borel's nemesis- Totoche (Francois Cluzet, Tell No One). Under the poacher's tutelage, Paul will learn about life and growing up...and also about the forest and its secrets. With School of Life, Nicolas Vanier (Belle & Sebastian) delivers a captivating and well-acted drama and a beautifully filmed love letter to the French countryside.