A collection of letters that convey the intimate accounts and spiritual experiences of women facing the truth of love, from first love and motherhood to old age. Woman's fight for independence and recognition, her struggle with sexuality and the dishonesty of men, all the emotional tides of life are described. The jealousies, infatuations and traumas, physical stresses and eating disorders, menstruation and menopause, separation and loss are all portrayed in the letters.