The central plot follows ex-clown Louison (Dominique Pinon) taking the handyman job, falling in love with the butcher's myopic daughter Julie (Marie-Laure Dougnac), and her efforts to save him with help from bumbling vegetarian Troglodyte rebels. The core premise centers on absurdist cannibal satire and romantic survival comedy rather than any identity politics or systemic oppression narratives, keeping progressive messaging entirely absent. Traditional 1991 French casting uses established actors in roles that match the story's eccentric, lore-driven needs with no race, gender, or sexuality alterations to prior source material and no DEI mandates of any kind.

Creator focus remains on visual surrealism and dark humor as stated in Jeunet and Caro interviews, rendering the vegetarian subplot incidental to the plot rather than an activist framing. This approach delivers straightforward entertainment without injecting contemporary ideological elements.