'He would relive for a long time everything she said to him in the room at the mission. He would recall the way her voice had grown thicker and thicker, and how her head had begun to hang to one side from the exhaustion of her telling, and how he made himself face the photograph of the dead child...' Impossible to tell where the truth lies, Julia Paradise is a morphine addict inhabiting a swampy, snake-infested world whose sexuality threatens to engulf her - and Ayres, her Freudian physician and lover.
