A group from the Foreign Legion, forgotten, abandoned somewhere in the gulf of Djibouti. Remnants of a ghost army which plays war and mends roads.

At Marseille, the ex-warrant officer Galoup remembers his happy times his orchestrated life, his mean, his dear herd. But eventually what he really lost is his commander. His commander he didn't want to share with a young legionary.

Based on Melville's novella, Billy Budd, BEAU TRAVAIL begins with former Warrant Officer Galoup looking back nostalgically on the time he spent in a forgotten Foreign Legion outpost somewhere in the Gulf of Djibouti. But the reality is that he was cashiered for his attempts to get rid of the young recruit who came between him and his beloved commander.

Filmography:
1989 CHOCOLAT
1989 MAN NO RUN
1990 NO FEAR, NO DIE
1990 JACQUES RIVETTE, LE VEILLEUR (in co-operation with Serge Daney)
1991 KEEP IT FOR YOURSELF
1993 I CAN'T SLEEP
1994 US GO HOME
1996 NENETTE ET BONI
1999 BEAU TRAVAIL