At the center of the novel is the fate of a woman, not just ordinary, but exaggeratedly ordinary. Large, awkward, ugly, Ruth meekly resigned to the fate of a house slave. Her husband Bobbo, a handsome man and a bon vivant, takes her canine devotion for granted and lives for his own pleasure. But then a bomb explodes in a quiet family swamp - Bobbo falls in love with the charming writer Mary Fisher and decides to leave the family. A wife driven into a corner tears out from her heart everything that was the essence of her life. From now on, she is not a wife, not a mother - she is the embodiment of Satan in a skirt, her goal is revenge. A grandiose, truly diabolical plan is born in her head, and it will take her seven years to implement it.