Grim, bleak and depressing. ( )

Obsessive and destructive personalities at work in this study of a compulsive power struggle between two young homosexual men. Their relationship descends into a psychotic, vile and horrifying hell. The crazed atmosphere is maintained with disturbed and scheming family characters, and with frequent reference to a shadowy physical setting, (trees, sunlight through windows, stark rooms and buildings). Set in Yorkshire, in the environs of Wakefield perhaps.