The world of 18-year-old Vincent collapses when his girlfriend Elsa leaves him. The break-up of this first relationship is the end of the world for the boy. Trying to help, his parents Cléa and Harold do whatever they can to help him to forget this girl. They put together a love detox program, which they improvise as they go along...

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Because this is a movie by Frédéric Forestier, director of Boulet, Asterix at the Olympic Games (co-directed with Thomas Langmann) and Stars 80, it is a perfectly calibrated comedy, with lots of gags (the parents who teach their son to hate his ex, insult her, ridicule her), a moral lesson (the parents who learn to love each other again after realizing their marriage has become sad), syrupy dialogue ("Have you counted all the love given to you? How will you pay it back?"), and a typically comedic cast (Isabelle Nanty and Pierre-François Martin Laval, alongside a funny Thomas Solivérès). Failing to be frankly inventive or enthusiastic, Mon poussin is for those in search of a little light and innocent comedy. Everyone else will probably find it lazy, phoned-in and boring.