Heat Wave

It is a long hot summer at World''s End a two-family grey stone cottage in the English countryside. Pauline is editing a romance novel in the smaller dwelling and the larger part is occupied by her daughter Teresa; Teresa''s baby; and her husband Maurice a writer whose infatuation with his editor''s girlfriend is growing. Pauline fears for Teresa who is passionately in love with her husband for she senses Maurice''s imminent betrayal. She remembers a time when her possessive passion for Teresa''s father eroded her own youth. A stunning and unexpected denouncement irrevocably changes the order of things for this family whose intimacy the reader abandons reluctantly at novel''s end.