The book is a narrative of Congress Party's political journey after the Emergency. It takes the readers through many known and unknown pieces of information and behind-the-scene going-ons within the party during a period in which it lost its political pre-eminence in India. The book discusses the ideology, or the lack of it, under its different leaders and how they party rebuilt itself to return to power in 2004. A lot of attention has been paid to the working style of its leading family and its idiosyncrasies.
