This book includes three stories:

1- The Peach Stone
2- The Beast
3- There Ought to Be a Law

The main characters of the first two stories are women who happen to be at a very critical point of their lives. The experience which also makes the climax of the story has a great influence on them. The third story takes a humorous look at a seemingly unimportant matter in the life of a couple, which leads to amusing consequences.