In the frozen expanses of Antarctica, amidst the white silence spreading everywhere, members of a French expedition try to extract ice samples from the greatest possible depth. The thickness of the iceberg exceeds 1,000 meters and the deepest layers are estimated to have formed 900,000 years ago…

And then something astonishing happens: the detection machines record a signal coming from the depths of the earth. There is a transmitter beneath the ice. The news drops like a bomb. Scientists and technicians from all over the world come to drill through the ice to solve the mystery. What they discover defies the laws of time and human logic…

The glaciers hide the secret of a super-advanced ancient civilization destroyed by human arrogance and thirst for power, leaving behind, however, a precious example of its peak and beauty.

A scientific epic, a stormy adventure, and at the same time a passionate love song, the novel The Ice Lovers by the "father of French science fiction" René Barjavel was published in 1968 and ranks among the classic works of the 20th century. It remains one of the greatest publishing successes of French literature, having sold three million copies worldwide.