简介：影片根据美国作家吉姆·汤普森的小说《POP.1280》改编，导演塔维尼埃将原着故事发生地美国南部改为30年代的北非殖民地，讲述了一段发生在当地警察头目身上的黑色喜剧。

简介：Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a Progressive journalist  and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook. But when the plague descends on the posh island, the family and staff find themselves cut off from society and, like castaways, struggling to survive. The new cook sees an opportunity to rouse his fellow staff to re-think...