A 17-year-old American art student arrives in Paris just as the May 1968 revolution erupts—and must choose between remaining an observer or growing up in a world on fire

SYNOPSIS:

Lee, a teenage American from Wyoming, comes to Paris on a scholarship expecting art and freedom. Instead, he finds mass protests, barricades, and police violence during the May 1968 uprising under the conservative rule of Charles de Gaulle. Pulled into the movement, Lee experiences his first political awakening—and his first love.

AN AMERICAN KID IN PARIS