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Her memoir highlights important issues such as gender bias, the shame that suspected women have to undergo, how they are abandoned by their families and live a stigmatised life, how society looks down upon ambitious women and how the conditions in jail vary for different prisoners. She also gives an idea about life in an undertrial jail, the clothes they wear, the food they eat, the protocol for meetings with family or lawyer and what they have to wear for that, the human rights issues, the lost innocence, the camaraderie and the need to stand by their beliefs. We also learn legal terms and the sections of charges, the length of a chargesheet, and behaviours of jailers and wardens. Her memoir is also a reminder of an important clause that most of us never follow: Read the documents, terms and conditions carefully before signing anything.