In the novella, "Holy Fools", a man on the verge of suicide answers the doorbell and is arrested for a crime he did not commit. His luck changes when he meets Tolstoy, a Lord and author of long books who is doing time for crimes against shareholders. A dark comedy about the game of life. Two stories complete the collection: Nobody Writes to the Professor in which a long-suffering scholar meets an old love and is offered a last chance at success; and Kitchen Smells, featuring a woman who finds her life changes in unforeseen ways after a brief, heady trip to Mumbai.