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The socialist mayor of Saint-Juire has set his heart on building a cultural and sports complex in the village meadow. He's a well liked by the local people and has managed to raise the loans needed for the complex thanks to his contacts.

In 1992, the socialist mayor of a little French town with the help of his contacts in Paris get the money to build a multimedia house. But the socialist party lose his majority in the election. But... But... Well everything would have been all right without those seven coincidences.—Jean-Marie Berthiaume <jiembe@videotron.ca>

Julien Dechaumes is the mayor of a small French village and has big plans: He wants to make his village a modern tourist spot by building a center for culture and sports. In order to achieve this goal he has to overcome some difficulties. On the plot of land for building is an old tree. Teacher Marc wants to save this tree by all means.

Saint-Juire en Vendée, 1992: Julien Dechaumes, owner of a castle and mayor, has big plans: He wants to build a center for culture and sports on a meadow in the middle of the village, that would prove worthy of a small town. Thanks to his connections to Paris the socialist has received huge subsidies. The government wants to back its party in the otherwise Conservative Vendée. Dechaumes, who lost at the regional elections, hopes to be put up as candidate for his party in the coming parliamentary elections due to his commitment. Therefore, the center with a swimming pool, an open-air theater and a media center is to be his showpiece. There is, however, a lot of resistance to his project. Spokesman of the critics in the village is the teacher Marc Rossignol, who wants to save the 100-year old willow tree that grows right in the middle of the plot. Writer Bérénice Beaurivage - a textbook Parisian - also criticizes Dechaumes - but for other reasons: She and Dechaumes have been in a relationship for a short while and she thinks his career prospects would be far better in Paris. Journalist Blandine Lenoir makes interviews with half the village, advocates and adversaries alike, but her article for a political magazine is shortened by the editors in chief, now placing Rossignol in the limelight. Accordingly, the cover page does not feature a picture of the architect's model, but the tree ... In the end, the teacher's ten-year old daughter is the one to find an acceptable solution for all.