It tells about the encounters a girl student makes in one day only, after being expelled from school as a punishment. "˜In La punition, Jean Rouch wanted to react against the very notion of cineÌma veÌriteÌ , which had become popular with Chronique d'un eÌteÌ despite being controversial from many points of view. In order to do so, he asked each actor to be someone else and made them experience new plausible reactions for their new characters'. (Gilles Marsolais).
