Lou, an ethnologist, and a Montagnais on her father's side, leaves on an expedition to the Far North. A man tells her about the shaking tent where time and space cease to exist and it is possible to communicate with the dead. Then he has her drink the water from a strange lake. Suddenly it is 1966 again, in the middle of a violent strike, and the workers, both White and Montagnais, are fighting to defend their interests. A monster, Atshen, emerges from a steaming vat and a fierce power struggle ensues.

« BEAUDRY : There were bones, bones, and a rifle inside the bronze monument. The police were intrigued. / LEON : Bones? / BEAUDRY : A human skeleton, with a bullet right through the middle of the skull. / LEON : The rifle… I had it put there when they cast it. That's what he wanted. But the bones… / BEAUDRY : The police tried to question the artist who made it, but he's dead. Hunting accident. »