"From fearsome engine to final car, all surviving human life is here: a complete hierarchy of the society we lost. The elite, as ever, travel in luxury at the front of the train - but for those in the rear coaches, life is squalid, miserable and short. Now the poor have had enough: it's time to seize control of the engine - and their future!" --

"Coursing through an eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Earth, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long. The last bastion of human civilization. But where did it begin? Crazed leader of the Apocalypsters, Marcio, has launched a catastrophic attack on the world. Claiming to cleanse mother Earth of her human disease, the world has been plunged into a dark, icy winter....