Fiertés - Episode Guide

May 1981. Victor, 17, divides his time between his girlfriend, Aurélie, and the building site where he helps out his father, Charles, the site manager. On the site, Victor is sent into a spin by Selim, the foreman's son. Their relationship is impetuous, driven by the instincts of youth.

Despite being the first to defend the values of openness and tolerance embodied by the Left in this period of presidential elections, Charles doesn't want to think his own son is different.
Charles throws Selim off the site and reports his behavior to his father. By way of reprisal, Selim gets his own back on Victor. He doesn't want to go against the expectations of his family or society. Instead, he rewrites history. At high school, the rumor starts to spread that Victor is gay...

September 1998. Victor and Serge are leading a quiet life as a couple. Victor has become a talented architect, and remains close to Aurélie, who is the single-mother of a baby to which he is godfather. On the face of it, everything is going fine. Yet the passion between Victor and Serge has gradually faded over time.

Serge is very involved running an LGBT charity, where he takes in Basile, 17, who is provocative yet lost. His parents threw him out when they found out he was gay.
Meanwhile, Victor is in charge of his first project. On the building site, he runs into Selim, who has become a foreman. Time stands still. Selim says he regrets his behavior back then, but is happy with the choice he made: He's married and has started a family. Meeting this old lover destabilizes Victor, and awakens his teenage desire.

January 2013. Victor is an accomplished architect. He never has much time for his son, Diego, a kid with a strong will who's in his final year at high school. Serge is back living with Victor and Diego, and things are very clear. Together, they form a kind of undefined blended family.

When Diego is called in by the principal for fighting with his classmate, Paul, who made racist and homophobic comments, it is Serge who comes in to receive the lecture from the headmistress.

As in any father/son relationship, Victor and Diego sometimes have a hard time getting along. Diego has forged a secret bond with his grandfather, Charles, who still has a strained relationship with Victor. Despite his solitude since Martine died, Charles is clearly not part of Victor's life.