在这部政变喜剧/犯罪/剧情片中,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。
1938, in a French african colony. Lucien Cordier is the cop of this village, populated with blacks and a few whites (usually racialist and lustful). He is a washout, everyone (including his wife Huguette) humiliates him. He never arrests anyone and looks at elsewhere when a dirty trick occurs. But one day, he turns into a machiavellian exterminating angel.
傍晚六点……我们在驶入原始丛林。【Coup de torchon·大清洗裏隱藏的黑色幽默】。
