In 1978, Ruiz was commissioned to make a television documentary about the French elections from the viewpoint of a Chilean exile in Paris’ eleventh arrondissement. But, contrary to the producers’ expectation, the Left lost. Ruiz seized on this anti-climax to make a documentary about nothing except itself – a film whose central subject is forever lost in digression and ‘dispersal’, harking back to his Chilean experiments of the ‘60s. Its political content is deliberately left negligible: it’s hard to tell at the end who did actually win the election, let alone why.

En 1978, l'INA a commandé à Raoul Ruiz un documentaire sur les élections législatives dans le 12e arrondissement de Paris.

Nel 1978 l'Ina, la televisione pubblica francese, commissiona al regista Raoul Ruiz un documentario sulle elezioni parlamentari dell'11° arrondissement di Parigi e sulla vittoria data per certa della sinistra. Esule cileno, Ruiz sfrutta l'occasione come pretesto per una riflessione su come realizzare un documentario.