A pocket of the 16th arrondissement, a residential district. A young boy, lacking for nothing, cannot bear his parents’ fighting. One day, he goes to get ear‑plugs, unaware that a tragedy is unfolding in the mansion – one he’ll never hear…

Chabrol is the master of the crime genre, often dubbed the French Hitchcock. He carefully hides his sardonic humour from his viewer – possibly behind his black sunglasses. In this short he has taken them off, and plays a quarrelling couple alongside his wife Stéphane Audran. In his typical critique of bourgeois lifestyles, this short features perhaps one of the strangest death scenes ever filmed.