On a backcountry camping night, a child’s sleep is having a hard time to find its way. To bed him, his uncle tells him a story: “a real story of someone whom actually existed”.
Through the uncle’s voice, and the little boy’s perception, we are propelled to a 19th century farm, where the little Pierre Brisset, Charles Darwin’s contemporary, is growing up in his 5th year, while going through his first discoveries, and developing his first intuitions on human’s life batrachian origins.  
