Claude Chabrol	...	(Director)
Odile Barski, Claude Chabrol	...	(Writer)
Gérard Depardieu	...	Paul Bellamy
Clovis Cornillac	...	Jacques Lebas
Jacques Gamblin	...	Noël Gentil / Emile Leullet / Denis Leprince
Marie Bunel	...	Françoise Bellamy
Vahina Giocante	...	Nadia Sancho
Marie Matheron	...	Madame Leullet
Adrienne Pauly	...	Claire Bonheur
Yves Verhoeven	...	Alain
Bruno Abraham-Kremer	...	Bernard
Rodolphe Pauly	...	L'avocat
Maxence Aubenas	...	Gilles
Anne Maureau	...	La journaliste TV
Henri Cohen	...	Le Président du tribunal
Thierry Calas	...	Le médecin-légiste
Dominique Ratonnat	...	Le médecin

Summary: As every year, chief inspector Paul Bellamy spends a few days with his wife Françoise in the family house in Nîmes. Jacques, Paul's stepbrother, turns up unawares, which is bad news since the fellow is an alcoholic good for nothing. Also annoying is this stranger at bay who asks Bellamy for protection. Farewell peaceful holiday!