L'homme sauvage et Julius Pingouin

Set on a quiet Sunday evening in 19.. Paris, the Méandre family gathers for dinner in their modest apartment on the Quai Bois-l’Encre. Their peaceful routine is shattered when a white‑painted hook holding the chandelier snaps, sending the light fixture crashing onto the table. The impact destroys a dish of partridges with cabbage, splashes a bizarre green, syrupy liquid, and ignites a small fire that the patriarch douses with his coat, leaving the youngest child injured and the household in chaos.

The experience drives Monsieur Méandre into a furious tirade, blaming an unseen “pig from above” and demanding proof from the building’s concierge. A mysterious wooden plank bearing a warning—“Defence de jouer la Prière d’une Vierge au piano. Sans cela punition”—has appeared on his daughter’s piano, suggesting a strange connection to a neighbor above. As tensions rise, the family must confront both the physical wreckage and the eerie suggestion that their domestic world is being manipulated by forces beyond ordinary comprehension.