A collection of stories by Peter Wells, better known as a film writer and director, which explores the world of cinema and film-making in settings such as Miami, Siberia, Paris and Australia. The collection includes the essay, "Confessions of a Provincial Pouf".
The people who inhabited Europe during the two millennia before the Roman conquests had established urban centers, large-scale production of goods such as pottery and iron tools, a money economy, and more. This title argues the visual world of these late prehistoric communities was different from those of ancient Rome's literate civilization.