August Pullman came to study in the fifth grade. He's new, so it won't be easy for him. And given that he had never studied at school before, it is doubly difficult. In addition, there are very few who want to be friends with August: after all, this quite ordinary ten-year-old boy has a completely unusual face. Despite many operations, due to a genetic anomaly, his face looks more like a scary mask| and the fact that August is alive at all is a real medical miracle. What he will face at school - it seems that any of us can guess: children can be cruel. But how his first school year will end, you can find out only by reading this book, full of love, pain and laughter - like life itself.