A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
Mireille Darc
as Corinne Durand
Jean Yanne
as Roland Durand
Jean-Pierre Kalfon
as Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Yves Afonso
as Gros Poucet (uncredited)
Yves Beneyton
as Un Membre du FLSO (uncredited)
Juliet Berto
as Une Activiste du FLSO / Jeune Bourgeoise Accidentée (uncredited)
Michèle Breton
as Girl in the Woods (uncredited)
Michel Cournot
as Man From Farmyard (uncredited)
Lex De Bruijn
as Revolutionary (uncredited)
Omar Diop
as Mon Frère Africain (uncredited)
Jean Eustache
as L'Auto-Stoppeur (uncredited)
Jean-Claude Guilbert
as Le Clochard (uncredited)