More than fifteen years passed from the moment of events of "Story of Maid", the republic of Галаад with her theocratic mode still retains power, but the first signs of internal decomposition appear. In this important time of fate of three very different women interlaced - and the results of their union promise an explosion. Two from them belong to the firstgeneration growing at a new order. Their voices are joined by the third is voice of Aunt Лидии. Her the not simple past and dim future hide in itself the great number of riddles.In "Precepts" of Margaret Этвуд raises a shroud above the internal mechanisms of Галаада, and in the light of the opened truths every heroine must understand, who she, and to decide, as far she is ready to go out into a fight for that in what believes.