"I set my brother on fire when I was six years old, but he survived. Three years later, I ran over him with a car, which seemed to do the trick."Oliver spent the first nine years of his life being abused and manipulated and afraid, and when he and his mother finally sneak away in the middle of the night, he believes he is free from his tormentors.Now it's 1993 and, after living in hiding for six years, Oliver returns home to face the mess he left behind. All he wants is to be left alone with his sci-fi novels and his punk rock tapes, but the ghosts of his past have other ideas.