Heat and dust - these simple, terrible words describe the Indiansummer. Year after year, endlessly, it is the same. And everyone whoexperiences this heat and dust is changed for ever. We often say, inthese modern times, that sexual relationships have changed, for better or for worse. But in this book we see that things have not changed.Whether we look back sixty years, or a hundred and sixty, we see thatit is not things that change, but people. And, in the heat and dust of an Indian summer, even people are not very different after all.