The book tells about five women and how varied and complicated their lives became after they met a man. The story goes through the life of this young man who lived with them and loved them but his heart was always with one among them who stood aloof in the pain of loving him. It was all a mystery that among these five women, four stood with him to build him except one. Tragedy was the fate of all five of them who touched him. All of them suffered for him and failed to gain anything from him. In the end the story surprises us that the listener of the story was his daughter and she helped him to find his dear loved one he had lost at sometime in the earlier part of his life.