In Shanghai, the Breton Jean Cremet aka "The Red Hermine" in volatilizes during a secret mission. Everybody believes death. Except Roger Faligot and Rémi Kauffmann. Half a century later, the two writers lead the investigation into the disappearance of nimbée mystery.
* In Nantes, they found the girl and unknown Cremet
retrace the route of the still absent father, a young socialist, friend of Lenin on vacation in Pornic and creator of the Communist Party in Britain.
* In Paris, Cremet, councilor of the 14th arrondissement and Secretary-General of PC, runs a vast network of spies in Russia.
* In Moscow, dissident ahead of time, he opposed Stalin.
* In Hong Kong, Macao and Shanghai, Nantais alongside Ho Chi Minh, Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping.
* Between Kobe, Yokohama, Vancouver, San Francisco, New York and Cherbourg, it becomes a character of the human condition, the Chinese novel of his accomplice André Malraux.
* In Barcelona, Cremet defend the Spanish Republic, meets George Orwell and then disappear again in Hope, the new book Malraux.
* In Brussels, he is hiding for thirty years with remarkable women, after leading a network of anti-resistance in northern France.
* In Britain, where he returned in secret, will he finally find his daughter Jeanne?
As an exciting adventure novel, this story reveals the true destiny special edition of a pioneer of dissent, the forerunner of the upheavals of the 20th century.