"When Marya Zelli's husband is arrested and jailed for theft, she is left penniless and confused in Paris. She is befriended by Hugh and Lois Heidler, but their generosity proves to be ambiguous and Marya finds herself in a frightening web."
"In interwar Paris, Marya is trying to make something of of her life. Alone, her Polish husband in prison, she has been taken up by an English couple who slowly overwhelm her with their passions. The novel was originally published in 1928, under the title"Postures.""
"A woman finds herself at loose ends when her husband is arrested."@en
"The story of a woman caught in a stranglehold between her lover and his wife. Marya Zelli finds herself dependent on the English couple that have taken her in. A strange complicity among the three entangles Marya in a bizarre sexual and psychological relationship. The situation explodes when her husband is released from prison."@en
"Maria and Heidler are the main figures of the quartet, and their love involves her husband and his wife in strange manoeuvres."