Published in If magazine, No. 1112 of 1994. Magnan met Retif at the spaceport and invited him to an urgent meeting with Ambassador Grosslapsus. Along the way, he asked the native driver to wrap up and drive past the theater, which is due to grandly open tomorrow. But instead of the theater in its place was a shapeless structure, covered with a huge tent on top, or rather - a monstrous hole yawned, at the bottom of which in dimly shimmering puddles there were scraps of electrical and plumbing communications. Did the competitors earthlings groache the whole building of the theater, the cultural help of earthlings to local authorities to win with their stadium project?! Smelled intergalactic scandal. Retif came just by the way...