Chicken for Linda! 2024

Paulette is a widowed mother who feels guilty after unfairly punishing her daughter Linda for losing her engagement ring, even though it was just her cat swallowing it. She asks Linda what she can do to atone for her mistake, to which Linda replies that she wants a meal of chicken with peppers, representing one of her few remaining memories of her father before his death; thus, Paulette sets out, against the context of a general strike that has virtually shut down the city, to buy a chicken to make the dish even though she does not know how to cook.

Paulette comes across a farm with a chicken coop and offers to buy a chicken from the son of the owners, but after she is refused, she takes matters into her own hands and steals one of the chickens. She calls Astrid, her sister, to help kill the chicken, which ends up stressing Astrid out. While making the drive to Astrid’s house, she is stopped by the police who perform a search and seizure on the car, which leads to them accidentally opening the trunk causing the chicken to escape. Linda chases it into a watermelon delivery truck, which leads to Paulette following. One of the police officers, Serge, chases the truck on his bicycle and gets it to stop. The driver of the truck, Jean-Michel, offers to bring Paulette and Linda to his grandmother so she can kill the chicken.

Upon arriving at Jean-Michel’s grandmother’s house however, she informs him that she’s never killed a chicken in her life. Serge tries taking this into his own hands and attempts to shoot the chicken dead with his gun. Linda heads downstairs to her friends Carmen and Annette, whom provide the peppers and additional assistance in trying to kill the chicken. Linda tries to kill the chicken by throwing it out the window, but it ends up getting stuck in a nearby tree. She calls out to the other citizens, who are playing gaga ball, to help them out and they respond by throwing as much as they can at the tree to get the chicken down. The police arrive due to the ensuing riot caused by everyone’s help, and after the chicken lands on the ground Linda runs off with it.

Jean-Michel decides to help cook the chicken. Upon returning to Carmen’s apartment, they discover that the peppers in the oven have been burnt. Linda is soon reminded of her father. In the end, Jean-Michel succeeds in cooking the chicken with peppers and serves the dish to everyone. Serge decides to quit his job as a police officer and Jean-Michel appears to express feelings to Paulette by telling her dishes he is capable of cooking.