An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
Stéphane Audran
as Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
Jean Yanne
as Paul Thomas, aka 'Popaul'
Roger Rudel
as Commissioner Grumbach
Antonio Passalia
as Angelo
Mario Beccara
as Léon Hamel
William Guérault
as Charles
Pascal Ferone
as Father Charpy
