Two novellas. In the title piece, a New York playwright tours a death camp in the Czech Republic as part of a literary conference, while Three Pigs in Five Days is on how boring Paris can be if your loved one is not with you.
Forty days before a baby is born the angels in heaven decide whom it will marry; therefore, nothing prevents the wedding of Leah and Chonon from taking place.
Demons from the town of Chelm hide in a crate being shipped to New York because they hope to practice their mischief where streets are paved with gold and there are parties every day.