This quasi-surreal spoof of Edwardian England and Sherlock Holmes by the creators of Children of Paradise is a mad delight, full of off-beat and anarchistic humor. An all-star cast is headed by Michel Simon as the head of a bourgeois family--by day, an eccentric botanist, by night the writer of crime stories inspired by his daughter, who hears them from her lover, the milkman. Louis Jouvet is the hypocritical vicar who is convinced that detective story writers are potential murderers and brings Scotland Yard onto the scene. Out of the melée emerges William Kramps (Jean-Louis Barrault), a comical homicidal killer who loves animals but frightens the botanist out of his wits.