21 and lost in an existence he doesn't understand, accused of murder, welcome to 24 hours in our narrator's world.
Confused, angry and lost, the narrator feels impotent in a modern world of adulthood that he cannot quite grasp. Fed up with the bile within, he decides to travel home to his favourite childhood retreat to try to make sense of things. He has witnessed a murder of which he is eventually accused, has lost all he holds dear and cannot find a way to enter the world of music that he so desperately desires. Do we laugh at him or pity him? Is the world really that bad a place? Along the way he meets a mysterious young girl and takes us through his hang ups, hatreds, experiences and opinions. The novel is an examination of society as we know it; good or ill as well as a foray into the mind and soul that poses many more questions than it answers.