In Saint-Pol-en-Avoinie, life is as simple and unchanging as in any other country town. Just a steady stream of flirtations, jealousies and quarrels between neighbours. But one day, the inhabitants discover that their village is actually shrinking. The farms are moving closer together, overlapping even, until it seems that everyone’s cows are grazing from one single field. Was it a landslide? Some kind of strange political prank? A tectonic plate movement? Let’s find out! Because, in the meantime, it’s becoming quite a problem…