In the bowels of France.
After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
daughter
suicide
work
nihilism
gun
killing
crisis
butcher
revenge
slaughterhouse
working class
jobless
social reject
economic crisis
revenge killing
thought
unemployed
new french extremism
antisocial behavior
lower class
poor man
industrial town
ex-prisoner
misanthrope
inner thoughts
incestuous fantasy
narrator