Narrated by the singular Paul, a violent, narrowminded farmer whose unceasing labor leaves him with more love for his livestock than his family, With the Animals is a portrait of masculinity gone mad. With his mute and detested wife and children huddled at his side, Paul is only roused from his regimen of hard labor and casual cruelty when a farmhand, Georges, comes to work on his property for the summer. His sovereignty seemingly threatened, an element of unwanted humanity now injected into his universe, Paul's little kingdom seems ripe at last for a revolution.
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