"Our handsome boy, our little prince, our world has been turned upside down and our hearts ripped out, " their statement said.

BBC: Matthew MacMillan and Mitchell Evans

In 1975, Lili (Isild Le Besco), a quiet upper-bourgeois Parisian girl bored with her twin roles as daughter and art student, abruptly takes up with a handsome, gentle-looking boy (Ouassini Embarek) of Moroccan descent.

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Perhaps he is neither, just an orphan who carries with him the picture of his handsome parents, killed in a car-crash near the pyramids when he was a boy, together with an abundance of good will which he showers on others.

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