Jean-Claude and Pierrot (Gerard Depardieu and Patrick Dewaere), a peculiarly scrofulous pair of vagrants, are discovered, as the picture opens, sexually terrorizing a middle-aged .
Before their friendship can mature, he is sent to far away London as an apprentice to a scrofulous Shylock.
From the scrofulous hobos of Samuel Beckett to Antonioni's tired-blooded aristocrats, the anti-heroes of modern art endlessly suggest that waiting for God is futile, since life is .