Squealers

Fresh off a demanding round of exams, veterinary student Emma (Kim Higelin) looks forward to a restorative summer retreat in sunny French farm country, crashing with her older brother at the communal farm where he lives and works alongside a welcoming collective of activists. Anxious to earn her keep, she enthusiastically volunteers to assist her new friends on a risky mission, infiltrating a nearby slaughterhouse to retrieve hidden cameras that contain damning evidence of brutally inhumane practices in the facility. Unluckily for Emma and her intrepid comrades, the abattoir also happens to be owned by a ruthlessly ambitious politician running for local office (Olivier Gourmet) who, along with his unscrupulous entourage of thuggish cronies, will stop at nothing to prevent the incriminating footage from getting out. Abel Ferry’s sophomore theatrical outing is a grisly, high-octane, relentlessly suspenseful cat-and-mouse thriller that pits its idealistic young heroes against a violently vindictive ruling class determined to save its own hide, with the inciting struggle for justice morphing inevitably into a vicious, no-holds-barred fight for survival.