My Duck Is Dead

An aristocrat has turned his desirable mansion into a textile workshop, where he works with his wife, his son and his mother-in-law; he's grumpy, stingy and unkind; in the village, the wealthy solicitor wants his ugliest daughter to marry his half-witted young son, so she'll become a countess. But Saint Francis of Assisi appears and the count changes overnight; he does not want his family to kill the spiders (your sister, the spider) and he begins to ignore the social conventions: his son will marry "La Langouste" (= the lobster), the local hooker who keeps a strong clientele among the billeted troops. Now, the aristocrat, imitating our Lord's apostles, divests himself of all possessions of the material world and intends to hit the road in a horse-drawn caravan.