He was only ten years old when his mother died. Drowned before Lewis's eyes. Since then, life has been divided into “before” and “after”. Before – there was family, support, attention, friends and the most ordinary life. Afterwards there is a lot of grief and loneliness. In her debut novel, Sadie Jones tells the story of a boy who refused to accept the false unanimity of society, which rejects love in favor of appearances. A society that has so often been shocked by the actions of a strange, unsociable teenager, but at the same time shocks itself much more with its callousness, deafness, and desire to conform to an imaginary norm. Will Lewis be able to find himself in this world? And is there at least one person in it capable of understanding and unconditional love?