Like many a serial killer, Yan Lazarrec, is on a mission to save the world. Lazarrec's mission is to protect the earth by dealing bluntly with corrupt industrialist polluters who abuse it. A pharmacist, but with his free time away from the laboratory, he spends defending the earth. An oil magnate is dropped into a tank of petrol, the head of a tobacco company is kidnapped and has cigarette smoke injected into his lungs and the president of a cosmetics company that engages in animal testing is poisoned. Chasing Yan is a slogan yelling and protest marching environmental fanatic, Francois Barrier. The two accidentally meeting accidentally at environment conference, without realising that Francois is the police detective in charge Yan’s case, become close friends without knowing each other’s true identity. Based on the introduction, you would think Jean Veber’s The Pharmacist was the environmental version of Seven. Yan, like John Doe of Seven, dealing with unacceptable crimes with religious punishment, doing what radical environments can only secretly dream about. However, as Yan and Francois meet, the film progresses into the French version of The Killer. A down trodden police detective and a misunderstood mad scientist, with every new murder, a homosexual like solidarity begins. From that point, the film steers away from being environmental revenge but is transformed into an introspective psycho thriller. Black comedy and gay romance, this perplexing serial killing thriller is also a ‘second-generation son’ film. The director Jean Veber is the son of comedy director Francis Veber and Guillaume Depardieu, who plays the detective, is the son of Gerard Depardieu. (Djuna)