A boy with Asperger's sets out to find who killed a neighbour's dog and introduces us to a point of view where all the things we take completely for granted make absolutely no sense and every day is a struggle to cope with incomprehensible cues, inputs and behaviours while maintaining control over the self and the self's environment, in the process deconstructing and exploding (diagrammatically) our own entrenched sense of normal perception and modes of thought and patterns of behaviour. It's not really a murder mystery, because you'll guess who dunnit, and they confess before the halfway point, but what happens next is that a boy who is utterly dependant on trust and routine and familiar surroundings and people has his world betrayed and pulled out from under him. His vulnerability and bravery are painful, his inability to cope or comprehend with the pain of his broken family is heartbreaking.