The main plot follows Thibaut, a Parisian, in an alternate-history 1950 where
World War II is still ongoing and
Paris is still occupied by Nazis. He joins forces with Sam, a photographer, to fight the occupying Nazis in a landscape dominated by manifs, real-world manifestations of surrealist art. Interstitial chapters follow an American engineer and occultist named
Jack Parsons, who visits a group of Marseilles surrealists, including
André Breton, in 1941. Parsons creates the "S-Bomb", the device which creates the manifs when stolen and detonated in Paris. ==References==