The story centers on the love between a Professor and a student. Eliza falls in love with James, her Professor. Their love affair continues till James marries Masha. He enters her life again when Masha goes to her mother’s house for her delivery. Their relationship becomes physical and Eliza conceives. He ditches her all of a sudden leaving her in lurch. Eliza’s father admits the child in orphanage informing Eliza that the child is dead. She leaves abroad and later comes to know that her child is alive. As she comes back to her homeland to find out about the child, she thinks of her bitter love and the revenge she took upon him by destroying his marital life and academic life. Thorns of Love is a tale of love, lust, and revenge. It is a story on the destructive nature of illicit relationship.