Around the Fire

Simon grew up surrounded by affluence in Manhattan, but despite all of his privileges, he never got over his mother's mysterious death. His father married right away leading Simon to believe that his father had already been having an affair with that woman. In preparation for his future studies at Princeton, Simon goes off to boarding school where he falls into the free-living and drug-doing crowd.

As Simon begins to question the life he truly wants to live in Around the Fire, his choices are not made easy due to the deep emotional turmoil he carries inside of himself.