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Hemmings is a young reformed drug-addict turned successful author whose work concerns the hellish life of a junkie. When his aunt, Robson, is found strangled to death in Pompeii, he decides to investigate, and, after a long period of indifference from the authorities (who think he's just a junkie hallucinating), threatening phone calls, and paranoiac suspicions, he has a nervous breakdown and never finds out who the murderers are, or why his aunt was killed. A grim, absorbing, but ultimately frustrating film, sparked with a fine performance from Hemmings.