Ihsan again as a social critic. Divorced women are the main concern in the book as they live in "Hell". The Egyptian society has no mercy on them and forgets that it is this very society that led to their divorce. When Soaad, a sixteen year old girl, is forced to marry 35-year-old Aziz so that her mother would be able to live with her new husband without being bothered by the presence of her girl, it should come as no surprise to us that Soaad should get a divorce later on from such a brutal unbearable husband and fall in love with the handsome Mahmoud who, too, is shackled by the rules of the society and has to keep his wife, Sherifa, for whom he does not have much love. The society forces both of them to establish their own world as long as they adhere to appearances. No one minds that Soaad is having a love affair with Mahmoud as long as she is Aziz's wife, but one she gets a divorce, she is an outcast, a whore, a person who stigmatizes all her acquaintances, and Ahmed's mother refuses to marry her son off to her daughter and agrees only the minute Soaad is a wife again. The Egyptian society does not uphold religious morals as it claims. As long as appearances are maintained, people are allowed to commit as many sins as they want, but they are ruthlessly punished if these appearances are touched. It is the force responsible for people's follies.