Jezebel Thevanaz, a young mathematics teacher, must leave the peaceful peaks of Haute-Savoie to go to Canada. His father, a former pastor and amateur watchmaker, made him swear, on his deathbed, to take to a friend in Quebec the watch he designed. A unique piece whose characteristic is not to give time but to destroy time. While Jezebel flies over Greenland, the plane is caught in a terrible storm. Forced to deviate its trajectory, the aircraft landed in a makeshift airport, lost in the north of the United States. It is dark night, the snow, thick and heavy, falls thick. Resigned, the young woman finds refuge at Plazza: An old hotel with huge proportions, tortuous like a cathedral. Broken by fatigue, Jezebel rented a room, believing that he could leave the next day. When he wakes up, the nightmare begins. It is announced that she did not stay at Plazza for a day but ... a year! Will she manage to regain freedom? Will she bear it? Will it really have been closed one year, one night? The reader knows no more than the character, lost in this universe of disturbing strangeness.--Translation of page 4 of cover by Grasset.