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The fox and The Child - Synopsis

The movie came out in 2007 by Luc Jacquet.

A young girl of about 10 years lives in a solitary house in the countryside in the East of France. One day in autumn, when she is on her way to school through the forest, she observes a hunting fox. Of course, the fox flees from her, but the girl feels a strong desire to meet the fox again.

During the following months, she spends most of her free time in the forests, exploring the nature, observing many different animals, but above all searching for the fox. Yet, she never sees the fox again before winter comes. During the winter, she learnt how to recognize the tracks of several animals leave in the snow, she follows fox's traces far across the fields. One day she saw fox and wolf fight. In panic, she tries to run home, but seriously hurts her ankle(cheville) during her flight.She cannot leave the house any more, but spends lots of time reading books about the wild animals of the woods, above all about foxes.

During springtime, she returned in the wood. Her ankle was healed.

The girl understands that the fox is extremely frightened, so she decides not to try to find the new hiding. She wanted to see it. After many fruitless and uneventful watches, the fox finally shows itself.

Many weeks after the fox starts taking meat from the girl's hand and still longer before it allows her to touch it.

During the summer, the girl followed the fox and has many adventures: jumping across a mountain creek for example and, passing a night in the forest.

After all these adventures and after becoming accustomed to the fox behaving, the girl bring the fox home and wanted to protect it from hunters catching and shooting. But, she acts the wrong way she enclosed it. And it became mad because foxes do not used of being locked up. It quickly escape when it had the opportunity. During the following days, she often returns to the places where the two liked to meet, but never see it again...