Late Nineteenth Century. Arriving to India from London, all the protagonists of this new cycle of India Dreams are gradually set up for a new drama ... In Calcutta, the judge Arthur Byle, appointed to the Supreme Court, has a lot of trouble to make his wife Cybill accept the invading exoticism of their new environment. In Rajasthan, assigned to the 8th Lancers Regiment of Bengal, the young Captain Redfield must endure the declared hostility of his superior officer, while preparing to face the terrible community of followers of Kali, stranglers thugs. While in the state of Awadh, accompanied by his young protégés Percy and Abe, Professor Sybellius, freshly excluded from the great schools of England for erotomania, declaims worms at the top of his elephantine mount, on the track between Calcutta and Agra: "Do you hear the silence announcing the storms on earth as in the hearts of men ?"
Late Nineteenth Century. Arriving to India from London, all the protagonists of this new cycle of India Dreams are gradually set up for a new drama ... In Calcutta, the judge Arthur Byle, appointed to the Supreme Court, has a lot of trouble to make his wife Cybill accept the invading exoticism of their new environment. In Rajasthan, assigned to the 8th Lancers Regiment of Bengal, the young Captain Redfield must endure the declared hostility of his superior officer, while preparing to face the terrible community of followers of Kali, stranglers thugs. While in the state of Awadh, accompanied by his young protégés Percy and Abe, Professor Sybellius, freshly excluded from the great schools of England for erotomania, declaims worms at the top of his elephantine mount, on the track between Calcutta and Agra: "Do you hear the silence announcing the storms on earth as in the hearts of men ?"