The story begins with the "Big Freeze." As the temperature drops fifty degrees in three hours, the city descends into a quiet, white chaos. Léo is tasked with monitoring the "Eye of the Cold," a point in the middle of the bay where the temperature is absolute zero.
It is July in Marseille. The city is usually a furnace of salt air and shimmering heat, but this year is different. A freak meteorological phenomenon—referred to by scientists as the "Glacial Inverse"—has trapped the Mediterranean coast in a localized, supernatural deep freeze. While the rest of France swelters at 40°C, Marseille is buried under six feet of snow. Un hiver en Г©tГ© FRENCH WEBRIP 720p 2023
While taking readings on the ice, he encounters Clara. She is the only other person brave (or desperate) enough to be out in the elements. They are two "summer souls" forced to adapt to a world that has turned white overnight. The story begins with the "Big Freeze
As the first drops of rain fall—warm rain—they stand together on the pier. The "Winter in Summer" ends not with a bang, but with the sound of cracking ice and the smell of the sea finally waking up. They realize that while the seasons have returned to normal, they have been permanently changed by the cold. The city is usually a furnace of salt
A professional swimmer whose Olympic dreams were crushed when the pools (and the sea) turned to solid ice. She spends her days wandering the frozen coastline, dressed in a heavy fur coat over her summer dress.