A prisoner of Judeo-Christian imagery, Fabienne Lips-Dumas leaves Paris to be reborn in Vancouver. At the top of the Rockies, a surprise more than 500 million years old awaits her: an extraordinary fauna fossilized in the Burgess shale. The History of origins would now guide her quest for identity. Between her taste for freedom and her insatiable and laughing curiosity, Fabienne will question the greatest biologists and paleontologists on the planet. From Burgess to American universities, via English colleges, the Pasteur Institute and the Collège de France, the eminent Richard Dawkins, Simon Conway Morris, François Jacob (Nobel Prize 1965), Yves Coppens, Jean-Didier Vincent, Kenneth Miller and Stephen Jay Gould, will agree to confide in her, sometimes laughing, sometimes serious, always wonderfully poetic.