Set in modern times this book is a compilation of five short stories that tell about a widow’s persistence to offer a better future to his son a writer seeking advice from a prostitute a 44-year-old software engineer who is being divorced by his young wife an author meeting his lover for the first time and a lonerwho is being haunted by a naked woman and a faceless man for the strangest reason. These short stories depict the deepest human longing hope perseverance heartbreak and love.