Presented in collaboration with the theater and music departments of Cegep Lionel-Groulx, Boris Vian’s 1947 play L’Équarrissage pour tous plunges us into the everyday life of a rather dysfunctional French family on D-Day.

The knacker and his family live in Arromanches, a small town in Normandy. Indifferent to the atrocities of the ongoing war, the father plans to marry one of his daughters to the German soldier he has been hosting for four years, and with whom she is involved. He seeks advice from his neighbor, the postwoman, and other family members.

He eventually invites his son, a parachutist in the American army, and his daughter, a parachutist in the Red Army, to witness the ceremony. American, Japanese, and German soldiers also join the family, and in the end, almost everyone finds themselves at the knackery.