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Asked by a girl in the school courtyard during their first week of secondary school.

This simple, invasive question serves as the inciting incident that shatters the boys' unlabelled paradise by imposing a binary adult perspective onto a fluid childhood bond.

Said during the same courtyard interrogation as a follow-up to the dating question.

An attempt to categorize their relationship in a way that is socially acceptable, yet even this label fails to capture the unique depth of their connection.

Rémi says this when the boys are imagining where they would go if they could travel the world together.

Represents the unfulfilled promise of a future together and the innocent escapism they shared before the world intruded.

Léo confesses this to Sophie while they are in her car, shortly before they embrace in the woods.

The ultimate climax of the film; Léo finally breaks his silence and takes responsibility for the distance he created, allowing his healing to begin.