SOPHIA Author:Pierre Boulee S.O.P.H.I.A. stood for the enourmous French company which owned the remote rubber plantation in the Malayan jungle, where a score of lonely Europeans lived their isolated lives. The men had work, whiskey and the girls of Kuala Getah. The women were condemned to idelness. — Germaine Dassier was beautiful, passionate, neglected by her husband. In t... more »he heat and crushing boredom, her desire grew until it was like a stalking tiger. When Maille, the new young man, arrived from Paris, Germaine fell on him, like a beast on its prey...« less