Rachin hands him over to the police, still not knowing the location of the stolen money, and disbands the choir. After Mondain is captured, Rachin repeatedly beats him, until Mondain in turn attempts to strangle Rachin. After Mondain is released from lock-up, he runs away and seemingly steals all the school's money. The choir is improving rapidly with Morhange as its lead soloist the children are happier, and the faculty less strict - even Rachin begins to loosen up, playing football with the boys and making a paper aeroplane. After stealing a watch, he is locked up for two weeks. Meanwhile, a cruel, uncontrollable boy named Mondain ( Grégory Gatignol ) arrives and begins causing trouble by bullying the others and generally being rebellious. When Mathieu goes to explain that Morhange cannot be visited because he has been locked up as a punishment, he finds himself pitying and being attracted to the boy's beleaguered mother and instead tells her that Morhange is at the dentist. Morhange's single mother, Violette ( Marie Bunel), arrives at the school. Mathieu catches Morhange singing to himself, discovers he has a wonderful singing voice and awards him solo parts on the condition that he behaves. He groups the boys according to their voice types, but one student, Pierre Morhange ( Jean-Baptiste Maunier), refuses to sing. On discovering the boys singing rude songs about him, Mathieu forms a plan: he will teach them to sing and form a choir as a form of discipline. When a booby trap set by one of the boys, Le Querrec, injures the school's elderly caretaker, Maxence ( Jean-Paul Bonnaire), Mathieu keeps the culprit's identity from the headmaster, while encouraging Le Querrec to nurse Maxence during his recovery. Mathieu discovers the boys being ruthlessly punished by the very strict headmaster, Rachin ( François Berléand) and attempts to use humour and kindness to win them over. The viewers later learn that his parents were killed in the Second World War during the Nazi occupation of France, but Pépinot does not know this. At the gate, he sees a very young boy, Pépinot ( Maxence Perrin), waiting for Saturday, when he says his father will pick him up. In 1949, fifty-four years earlier, Clément Mathieu ( Gérard Jugnot), a failed musician, arrives at Fond de l'Étang ("Bottom of the Pond"), a French boarding school for troubled boys, to work as a supervisor and teacher. An old friend named Pépinot ( Didier Flamand) arrives at his door with a diary which belonged to their teacher, Clément Mathieu. After the performance he returns to his home in France for her funeral. In 2003, Pierre Morhange ( Jacques Perrin), a French conductor performing in the United States, is informed before a concert that his mother has died.
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