A romantic novel about two sisters, Sima and Saba, who try to escape a fate similar to their mother’s (a broken woman, divorced and extremely bitter). A generational story, we read through the experiences of two Iranian young girls only ten years apart, from the narrative perspective of the younger sister, Saba, as she tries to show how the due try to escape the fate their mother obsessively warns them about. Love and misfortune are the major themes of this story, fit for the adult readers.

This is the first book by the young writer Mojdeh Saalaarkia. the style is that of the contemporary Farsi literature. A favorite especially among the female readers in Iran.