Publisher's presentation: A factory closing in the Vosges, nobody cares. A hundred or so guys are left out of work, unemployed, on welfare, the youngest one won't go to summer camp, one or two reports on the regional 19/20 and that's it.

Except that the factories are full of dangerous people who have nothing left to lose. Like Martel, the union man who hides his tattoos, or Bruce, the bodybuilder on steroids. Guys who have time and the bad idea to kidnap a girl on the sidewalks of Strasbourg to sell her to two big guys who make the rain and the good weather between Epinal and Nancy. A girl, a Colt .45, the snow, from there, everything follows.

Aux animaux la guerre is the black novel of downgrading, of white kids who know that their children won't do any better and who vomit in the same movement against the bosses, the Arabs, the rich, the assisted, the whole world. This is the story of a world that is ending. With a girl, a Colt .45, the snow.