After the death of the young woman who shared his life and his apartment for a year or so, a fifty-year-old man, nicknamed Tirelire (“piggy bank”) by the young woman (we never learn his real name), finds himself reluctantly in charge of her two-year-old son, Lino.

The relationship between the man and the boy seems like a real father-son relationship. Lino has in fact only known one "father" and calls Tirelire, "Dad." In return, Tirelire behaves with Lino the way a father would and also seems to love him like a father would. But Tirelire has a sole obsession: to find Lino’s true father and give him back. But who is the father? Where is he? And if he cannot find the father, then maybe Lino’s grandfather will take him? Tirelire looks into the young woman's recent past and Lino accompanies his "Dad" in his search for the real father he's never known.

Lino is centered around the character of the young boy, Milesi's real-life son also named Lino. The film came from Milesi's desire to film his younger son without making a documentary. And so this unusual and deeply moving love story was born.

Jean-Louis and Lino (now six-years-old) Milesi will attend the SFFF. Jean-Louis Milesi will also present the comedy Marius & Jeannette (Saturday, June 18 at 4:15pm) for which he was nominated for the Best Original Screenplay César in 1998.

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Q&A with Director Jean-Louis Milesi follows.