The book comprises six short-stories:
The Good Evil
The initial narrative commences with the protagonist’s attempt to submerge herself in a lake adjoining the enclosed community where she resides. After descending to the lake’s depths, the woman realises her incapacity to drown and opts to divest herself of the stones burdening her and swim back to the surface. Upon returning home, she encounters her spouse, who perpetually clutches a mobile phone, and her two daughters, entrusted with the classroom rabbit, Tonel, for the evening. Seeking solace, the narrator embarks on a walk. Upon her return, she coincidentally encounters her husband and daughters once more, searching for Tonel, whom she had inadvertently let escape earlier. Eventually, the family’s stern neighbour, an avid hunter, discovers Tonel and fortifies his garden with barbed wire to deter children. As her daughters rejoice over Tonel’s return, the narrator is confronted by the neighbour, who cryptically alludes to witnessing her earlier ordeal in the lake. That night, unable to slumber, the protagonist ventures to her neighbour’s premises, only to find him skinning rabbits in a bucket of water. Their conversation reveals that the narrator did, in fact, drown when she leaped into the lake, and her sole path to remaining with her family entails committing a heinous act that will fill her with profound remorse. Returning home with the intention to eliminate Tonel, she falters when she reaches her daughter’s bed. As she reclines beside her husband, she senses her mind descending to the lake’s depths.
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