In a future where a failed global-warming experiment kills off most life on the planet, a class system evolves aboard the Snowpiercer; a train that travels around the globe via a perpetual-motion engine.
Balaban, a soldier in the Janissary army, settles in Moena in northern Italy after the Battle of Vienna in 1683 and fights for the rights of the local people.
When the ruthless forces of the Motherworld threaten a quiet farming village on a distant moon, a mysterious outsider becomes its best hope for survival.