Everything begins when the father of Nicolas decides to drop his son himself at the place of its snow class. This puts the child ill at ease, the reader will be more and more as and when reading. At first we can identify a little too imaginative to this kid. Far too perhaps ... At times he reminded me these things as I sometimes imagined child to scare me. Then we feel that there is something more, but not put my finger on. This character annoyed: it is capricious, coward, do not mix with other children and his imagination is truly overwhelming and even morbid. But why? The horrible secret is revealed to us through allusions, hints, innuendoes, really barely. By closing this novel, one wonders if we have not imagined it all ... We would come.