The day is off to a bad start for Paula Pan. Not only is Marie Darling, her political attache, late, but she has also brought her child to work with her. Madam Minister is a modern witch who has swapped her powers for POWER, who hates children but loves their by-products. Disturbed by the child's presence at the office, Paula Pan finds herself confronting her own hurt inner child.

« PAULA: Kindergarten… it's a strange word for a daycare centre. As if a daycare were a garden where the workers weed and hoe. […] If it were, I'd love to be a child gardener. I'd plant children. I'd cut and trim them, I'd tear them up and stomp on them. I'd spray the naughty ones with insecticides. I'd dump tons of chemical fertilizers on the ones who didn't behave. Then I'd put the children in a big pot, and - / CHILD, intercom: Mummy… / PAULA : And I'd put them through the blender. »

"Bright, funny, sharp and lively." Michel Bélair, Le Devoir, March 28, 1995