"Introducing another of the latest new generation of European artists like Lewis Trondheim, Joann Sfar or David B. Blain is the latest recipient of the best Album award at Angouleme and he is quickly rising to great fame. On the Bellicose, a destroyer in search of an enemy submarine during wartime, three novice sailors descend into the engine room to escape seasickness. After hours of peregrinations into the steaming bowels of the monstrous boat, they find themselves in front of the huge speed abater machine. Catastrophe follows and from then on, the men live in hell... A deeply human and highly unusual suspenseful tale by an exciting new talent." -NBM