From a psychoanalyst's couch, the narrator looks back on her bizarre childhood, in which she was born with a birth defect. Her family were intent on fixing it and somehow the narrator has survived the emotional havoc she went through, however she has not emerged completely unscathed. This intimate narrative echoes the voice of the narrator's younger self, a sharp, sensitive girl keen to life's hardships. With bare language and smart humour, both delicate and unafraid, the narrator strings a strand of touching moments together to create a portrait of childhood.