In a starving post-holocaust France, a butcher (who happens to also be the landlord of his building) keeps his odd tenants supplied by his unusual tendencies. A former circus performer applies for a maintenance position in the building, since the previous employee mysteriously disappeared. But when the butcher’s daughter falls in love with the former clown, only an underground (literally) band of vegetarian freedom fighters called the “troglodytes” can save her beloved from the meat cleaver.
