In this book, the plot of the story is secondary to the message of the story. As far as the plot is concerned, this book is written from the future about the present by May. When she was young, May had a photographic memory. However, she starts writing this book in her old age, when she is haunted by the memory of one part of her life. As it happens, that's the part of her life when all the discussions took place. She spoke with her friends about the issues of that day such as economics, religion, racism, gender equality and so on. She remembers those days as if 'they were etched on the part of her brain where her eye looks inward, so every time she closes her eyes, or even blinks, she can see those days as if they were right there in front of her’. When May retuned from London to her war-torn homeland, everyone expected her to choose a career in some national institution. However, May chooses to become a teacher. She meets new people, makes new friends, finds her true love, gets married, and just when she thinks that life couldn't get any better she's affected by the corrupt, post-war regime, and everything is destroyed. Although May never lived in a rural area, life in the urban area became too much to endure. She moves to a cabin in the mountains, by a lake with her daughter. May never knew her father. When they met, he didn’t tell her anything, but she later learned that he is a war criminal responsible for many innocent deaths including the deaths of her best friend’s family. By then, her father had killed himself and May had already decided to leave the city and live an isolated life in the mountains. In her old age, May's biggest problem is that she has outlived all her friends. The message is mostly about how are we so developed and so afraid of an apocalypse at the same time?