Three young men while away the sun-drenched summer talking, drinking - rarely sleeping - and there is an overwhelming sense that it is the last time they will be able to indulge in such idle
pleasures. In contrast to their feelings of transience, the prolonged leisure of their new, wealthy acquaintance, Poli, fascinates them. For a while they linger in his world, in his decaying
villa, half-appalled by his cocaine addiction, his blasphemy, his corrupt circle of friends, but none the less mesmerized until autumn creeps upon the hillside and the seasonal moment of
leave-taking arrives.
