The crew aboard the Romano Fafard spaceship continues their mission. Captain Patenaude and his acolytes land on planet: Crème hydratante pour le visage soulage la peau sèche (moisturing cream for the face soothes dry skin!) in hopes of finding the ship’s probe, accidentally crashed, that they must have in order to move the Earthlings. Their search is in vain, but it leads them to the tyrannical Governor Supreme who rules the planet. Just when the governor is about to tell them where to find a new probe, there’s a terrible explosion. Will the captain and the Romano Fafard find a liveable planet where they can move six billion Earthlings? And if so, when?
Une famille de petits commerçants chinois veut désespérément quitter Hong Kong avant son rattachement à la Chine en 1997. Ils tentent, mais en vain, d'émigrer au Canada. Un volcanologue d’origine chinoise, habitant l'Islande depuis quelques années, les invite à le rejoindre sur son île. Une correspondance et une relation toute particulière s’établissent entre lui et l’aînée de la famille. A family of chinese shopkeepers is desperately seeking to leave Hong Kong after the retrocession to China. After failing to emigrate to Canada, they are invited to go live in Iceland by a chinese-born volcanologist who moved there a few years ago. A correspondance and relationship builds between the two entities
A sweeping epic of good and evil, treachery and intrigue, violence and beauty, a sensuous, spirited story set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th Century England.
