Would putting a finger through fire give one any pleasure? Thee narrates the life story of a person, who at different stages of his life puts himself through flame-like situations more than once during different scenarios. A few of those incidents turned out be failures and a few gave him delusional victories, the effects of which later burnt his life to ashes. At the end of reading the novel, one gets a strong impression that, "A fire, which appears to be bright at a distance, when near would completely burn everything near it".