All the stories in the book are based on the contemporary middle class Assamese society.

In the first story, ''Image'', the reader gets to know an elderly person who has a chance encounter with a young man while sharing a table for a drink in a bar and ultimately gets embarrassed because he realizes that the young man on the opposite side of the table was nothing but an image of him.

In the story, ''The morning stroll'', two other elderly persons face an intimidating situation during their morning stroll, and as a fall out, go to the extent of challenging a group of armed ruffian youngsters and rather win their battle.

The happenings in the life of a young man are devastating for his wife and it gives her an uncanny feeling of ''being-nonbeing'', in the third story. The reader is intrigued by the narratives,...