A professional swimmer whose Olympic dreams were crushed when the pools (and the sea) turned to solid ice. She spends her days wandering the frozen coastline, dressed in a heavy fur coat over her summer dress.

The "Winter in Summer" isn't just atmospheric; it’s physical. The weight of the ice is crushing the city’s infrastructure. The government plans to use "thermal seeding"—a series of massive chemical explosions—to force the heat back into the region.

As the first drops of rain fall—warm rain—they stand together on the pier. The "Winter in Summer" ends not with a bang, but with the sound of cracking ice and the smell of the sea finally waking up. They realize that while the seasons have returned to normal, they have been permanently changed by the cold.

Palm trees are encased in ice, the sea has frozen into a jagged glass mirror, and the residents are trapped in a summer they no longer recognize. The Characters

The story begins with the "Big Freeze." As the temperature drops fifty degrees in three hours, the city descends into a quiet, white chaos. Léo is tasked with monitoring the "Eye of the Cold," a point in the middle of the bay where the temperature is absolute zero.

A disillusioned meteorologist who predicted the cooling but was ignored. He lives in a cramped apartment filled with space heaters and old jazz records.