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The 'Ventre' (the 'Womb') is a fictional universe. It is used as a context for a dark and mystic anticipation novel and several sets of photos and photo-manipulations. For more information, see www.leventre.net

The Womb - as it is called by those who live there - is an underground world, strange and dangerous. An endless maze of dilapidated dormitories, catacombs and abandoned medical rooms. Complex laws govern the area. Since a long time, ruin has fallen upon the central districts of the Womb, and men try to survive catastrophic collapses and decay of the facilities.
For everyone, the Womb IS the world, and there is nothing beyond.

Men spend all their life immersed in a deep sleep. This is their ideal : oblivion and emptiness. Conscience is a suffering and a curse. A caste of surgeon monks take care of the sleepers and ensure they never awake. On the edge of this weel-oild system, some wanderers, awaken by accident or by will, try to prevent the inexorable decline of their civilization. On the other side, hidden in deserted areas, ancient families of nomad insomniacs aspire to awakening of humanity, and prepare its comeback to the mythical Surface.

It is in this unstable world, constantly threatened with destruction, that the story of STH401772, the first among the Dreamers, unfolds. Caught up in a web of intrigue, manipulated by factions with conflicting goals, he tries to find his way. But his initiation quest, fraught with pitfalls, leads gradually to incalculable consequences. Ancient powers, arisen from the mists of time, awake to claim their due. Soon, the Womb will burst as a rotten fruit, and its ruins will give birth to the hope of renewal.