2350. The Earth is no more than a glacial cap dotted with domes under which various populations live. The people are, one suspects, the most unfortunate: they live under temperatures of less than 15 °. The Aiguilleurs are the masters of the railways, whose motto, "immobility, it is death, mobility, it is life" indicates that cities, dwellings can be transported at any moment. Here are the Shareholders who control everything, especially wealth. They live in an opulence that contrasts with the misery of the People. And then, the Roux, mysterious beings who are cold-weathered and endowed with an impressive sexual appetite. Who are they, where do they come from? Will they be the engine that will cause a society to collapse from injustice, arbitrariness and violence? Indeed, in the image of a pack ice, everything seems frozen in this cloisonné world. Until the day when a simple civil servant, Lien Rag, begins to ask disturbing questions, likely to waver the fortresses on rail.
Somewhere at the end of a Norman Road, Dr Celestin has set the foundation for its zoo. Rub shoulders most beautiful animals of creation. Bears, leopards, gazelles. A small human community is also deploying its difference. There is the adopted daughter of Celestin, Manon, sensual savage. She shares her love between her animals and Buggy, the animal sculptor, magician forms. Not to mention the last visit: Anna, the woman without a nose who fled Siberia where his fate was torn.
