Story Summary

After serving his sentence of 15 years, he became a vagrant until he went to a wrong farm owned by a young man who could be twenty. The young man was antagonized by the drifting, and he tied him to a tree with the aim of burning him from the foot up to the whole body. He left him alone, intending for him to die a slow death. Before the fire reached his foot, the real Phoenix appeared by burning itself and rebirth from its ashes. With a wink of an eye, the rain started and extinguished the fire. The wood where his hands were tied broke off, and he untied himself. He limped to the tar road, where he found a lift from a stranger, who then took him to the hospital.

Two years later, he decided to do something as an offering by giving any young person who matched his blood type a kidney. After trying with 10 people, there was a perfect match with a young man who was very sick and had lost too much weight. After the operation, the donor didn't wake up. Two weeks later, the young man recovered and asked the hospital officials to arrange a meeting with him so that he could thank him for saving his life. He was dejected to find out that the donor who died after the operation was not only the young man he attempted to burn alive but was also his infant father. When his family died in a fire, he survived while hiding under the steps, and he was adopted by a man who once represented his father on murder charges while he was still a lawyer.

He then visited the grave and cried, as he didn't have a chance to say goodbye. His last words while talking to the grave were, "I don't know how to call you, daddy or the Phoenix from Durban."