On his ninth birthday, Victor decides he’s had enough of being the model son and sets out to expose his family's well-hidden secrets to the light. Slowly but deftly pulling the screen of bourgeois hypocrisy to one side, he keeps a tight hold on the reins right through to the end with revelations that blow the family’s peaceful existence, patriotic complacency and social conventionality sky high. Armed with honesty, naivety, innocence and a child’s wiliness, Victor attacks everything he cannot understand or accept as prerequisites for a quiet and safe life in polite society. A surrealist, Roger Vitrac creates an original work which martials humour, lyricism and provocation to launch its attack. He aims his barbs at the bourgeois family, discomforting the audience with the terra infirma of a comedy with a... ‘tragic end’.