An Indian-Canadian doctor returns to Bombay to seek a cure for a disease which afflicts circus dwarfs and is caught up in a serial killing of prostitutes. The action is interspersed with commentary on the lot of social misfits: prostitutes, dwarfs, himself--the doctor regarding himself a foreigner in both India and Canada. Twenty years after he had been the examining physician of two victims of a transsexual serial killer, Dr. Farrokh Daruwalla leaves...

"Un ruido muy extraño despierta a Tom en plena noche. Su hermano pequeño, Tim, no lo ha oído y sigue dormido. Tom, asustado, va a buscar a su padre y, juntos, tratan de averiguar quién puede hacer un ruido tan inquietante"--Cover, P. [4]. When Tom is awakened by the sound of a "monster," he tells his father what he thinks he heard.