An embodied text that shines the spotlight on field experience, to try to better understand the private life of this formidable mammal.

Rémy Marion recounts his encounters with polar bears in the Arctic, which he has been traveling for over 30 years. He deconstructs its image as a "symbol of global warming": polar bears are under threat, but no more so than the other inhabitants of the Arctic. If the polar bear goes extinct, that won’t drastically change the Arctic ecosystem, but we humans will have lost a millenary landmark and an indispensable anchor.