The book is about how ten Soviet women, finding themselves in the same ward of a maternity hospital, suddenly find out that quarantine has been declared in this institution and they will have to spend ten more days within its walls. One of them comes up with the idea of repeating the story told by the Florentine writer Boccaccio: all ten days of quarantine to tell each other about life, about men, about love, about jealousy and betrayal and about many, many other things that worries any normal woman. And in ten days, a hundred different stories were told ..