In the countryside of the French Basque Country, the goat farmer Sébastien has financial troubles and unsuccessfully tries to convince his bank to reduce his credit debts.

Things go bad for the cooperative: Lucien's debts forces him to sell his livestock and he hangs himself, there is tension between the members, and the sales are not good enough.

[1] La Morsure des dieux was the eighth feature film written and directed by Cheyenne Carron, a self-taught filmmaker raised by a Catholic foster family.

[4][5] Joudet called La Morsure des dieux an "ode to an increasingly distressed French peasantry", made with "disarming care and seriousness", but wrote that the film suffers from relying too much on voice-over rather than action.

[4] Tranchant wrote that Carron has captured the Basque countryside beautifully, and used it to contrast an idealised sense of harmony, tradition and mystery against a "world of efficiency and profitability".