Pierre Saint-Menoux, a young mathematics professor, sees his life turned upside down by the invasion of France by the Germans in the early 40. It is no longer a soldier in the chaos that precedes the abdication. His meeting with an old scientist will change the course of destiny: it exposed the way to explore the time! Exciting discovery of the year 100,000 AD, meeting with oneself, temporal paradoxes: Barjavel explores almost all the possibilities that the story of the journey in time. This novel illustrates the exception to the rule that Americans are better than French in the register of science fiction. Intelligent and captivating.
