BLUE FIRE, with a background of medicine and war, is a love story across seas, deserts, and continents in a timeless journey. It begins as a child’s game, with simple rules; moving to life’s later games with more riddles than answers. Along the way, emergency “Red Blankets” await in hospital corridors; night bombardments shred moonless black horizons into bits of splintered sunsets; a strange fire burns in the desert, a companion to journey’s end.