Pâté is a dark story about an aristocratic family struggling to survive in a post-apocalyptic world.
Amongst a landscape of desolation, two young children, Otto and his sister Vera, hunt daily for food.
Meanwhile, at home in an abandoned ship, their delusional Mother clings onto the faded glory of their former aristocratic lives, aided by her shiftless Maid.
Full of memories, their life is a shadow of the past as each character copes with the grind of daily survival.
When the malevolent Mister Griswald, the only man to survive the apocalypse, drops in for dinner, he sets in motion the final act - revealing the shocking secret of their survival.