Sasseneire is a mountain pasture which has been left abandoned for the past twenty years due to a dark tale which still haunts the village elders. But should such rich grassland be left to waste because of some silly rumour of a curse when the parish is so poor? The young people of the village get their way, and when summer comes they take their herds 2,300 metres up into the mountain pasture under the watchful eye of the master cheesemaker, his nephew, four men and a young boy. Soon after, the words of old man Barthelemy install a climate of fear and superstition in the group; then, the livestock are suddenly struck by illness. Placed under quarantine, the mountain men are held prisoner of the threatening ice cap. Suddenly everything comes to a head...
