No plot summary can do justice to the atmosphere of terror and the psychological tensions energized in this bold, bizarre, utterly nightmarish thriller set in the Southern Hemisphere. The entire action takes place in the course of one fearful night. I have undergone such a life-shattering experience that I have lost my identity. I am a sensitive individual struggling desperately to reconstruct my most immediate past, but failing utterly. While groping for certainty I fall into the clutches of two denizens of the underworld-Pablo, a loathsome, hunchbacked dwarf, and Genard, a cheaply elegant procurer. At the end I escape my evil spirits and when, back in my home, the light of a new day dispels the wretched shadows of the previous night, I find myself, guiltless and free. Maybe...