The three stories are about passionate women and the unusual difficulties they have in their love lives.

In Lily she believes her daughter Sally was killed by her lover William. Was he in love with her daughter? How can Lily and William go on after Sallys death?

In The Devine Comedy Hazel, who is a sculptor, is caught in a web of desire and crippling old age. She and her younger daughter are running away from her older daughters disturbing and imprisoning life. Yet all the while she dreams of getting back with her long ago lover who deserted her.

In Why Do Men Die on Me Molly who desperately needs love and sex tells her story. But she has an unreliable memory, recounting her recent lovers and what was wrong with them on her way to seeing her dying ex-husband.