The 15-year-old girl of a poor family is forced – at the insistence of her aunt – to leave behind her paralyzed brother and younger sister and marry Nader, a lecher who comes from a broken family. After a while, she gives birth to Nader's baby son, before her husband gets drafted for compulsory military service. During his stint in the military, Nader falls in love with another woman, secretly marries her and fathers a baby girl called Aila. After a while, Nader moves to the capital, Tehran, to work for a firm owned by a rich, middle-aged woman. The two of them hit it off shortly. Nader walks out on his wives and children and disappears – along with her boss – without a trace. In the absence of her husband, the young woman is forced to bring Aila under her wing, too. To eke out a living and escape poverty, she begins to work with Jeyran, a young female fisher. Hossein, a onetime lover of hers, tries to help her. Her early marriage had denied Hossein the opportunity to express his love for her. In the end, the woman who has let herself go …

Nahid Mashayekhi is an Iranian writer, teacher and jurist. She began to put pen to paper when she was a small child. Her professional career as a writer began in 2015 when she brought out Vista (an Iranian woman of heavenly nature). In her novels, Nahid focuses on the problems of Iranian women rooted in the wrong traditions that prevail in society. TT Mah is her second novel. Nahid Mashayekhi, a member of the Writers Association of Iran, lives along with her family in Tehran.