The Wild Child

In the gripping and poignant "The Wild Child", François Truffaut tells the true story of Victor of Aveyron, an abandoned child found in a French forest circa 1798, feral, filthy, and mentally impaired. With the help of Dr Jean Marc Gaspard Itard, a patient doctor who attempts to civilise the boy, Victor gradually becomes socialized and acquires the rudiments of language, but struggles to find his place between the laws of civilization in rough Parisian life and the brutal laws of life in nature.