'Alone Against Everyone') is a 1998 French psychological drama art film written and directed by Gaspar Noé as his directorial debut, and starring Philippe Nahon, Blandine Lenoir, Frankye Pain, and Martine Audrain.

As a teenager, without the opportunity to study and learn the profession of his choice, he reluctantly embraces the career of a butcher specializing in horse meat, a job frowned upon at the time in France.

After several years of hard work, he finally opens his own butcher shop while his girlfriend gives birth to a daughter.

As they start making plans for their future together, she sells her business and they move to northern France, where she says she will buy a butcher shop for him.

When his mistress unjustly accuses him of having an affair with the nurse, he snaps and punches her in the belly several times, perhaps and likely killing their unborn child, before fleeing the scene with a pistol.

He decides to return to Paris, where he rents the same flophouse room where he conceived his daughter and begins looking for a job as a horse meat butcher.

He broadens his job search but is considered unskilled in terms of general butchery, forcing him to start over again at the very bottom.

As he abuses his daughter, the Butcher, between more and more incoherent thoughts, tries to justify his act by asserting that the world does not condemn his love because it is evil but because it is too powerful.

The film was produced by Les Cinémas de la Zone, a production company run by director Noé and his girlfriend Lucile Hadžihalilović.

Noé then decided that a horse meat butcher would make a great character in a film, and this formed the basis for his first short Carne.

A notable exception is the final crane shot, which moves gently away from the Butcher's window and turns to look down an empty street.