A teacher (Stephane Audran) meets a butcher (Jean Yanne) at a wedding and the two begin a friendship. It's clear early on the butcher hopes for more, but the teacher has been burned by romance in the past and is not looking for a new relationship. This is an interesting dynamic because it explores the whole "nice guy" phenomenon – maybe if the butcher is nice enough in just the right way to this teacher, she'll eventually fall for him. Or, maybe that's not the way life works, dude.
Around this same time, the bodies of young murdered women start showing up in the small town, and the teacher begins to suspect the butcher might be behind it. As viewers we're as unsure as she is. At one point, she thinks she has the evidence that proves it's him. But then, she realizes it might not be. And so on.
The movie comes to an alternatively thrilling and emotionally intense conclusion as the teacher attempts to barricade herself into the school as the killer approaches, and then has to deal with her friend, the butcher, on his death bed.
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