Teenage Angst Has Never Been So Good. Christopher Brooks is fifteen-years-old and he's looking for his identity. He is torn. His struggle is between the poetry and art he loves and "being practical." He's a true Gemini. He lives alone with his gorgeous, manic-depressive mother, Lauren Brooks, who likes to move nearly as often as her mood changes. And he naively admires her Adderall eating, raging alcoholic cop boyfriend, The Razor. After their latest trek to a new neighborhood, Chris meets the indomitable and gregarious (and white lie teller), Holly Gunn. Holly quenches Chris' dry, mid-summer thirst for friendship when they start skateboarding, hanging out at the local mini-mart, rockin' out and reading at the library together. Holly helps Chris plot a vision quest to Downtown Seattle so he can get to see his crush, the effervescent and goofy smile inducing, fourteen-year-old, Lilly Rider, and her brother, his best friend Lee Rider. They all love to rock and their favorite band, Thunder Crunch Church, is playing at The Paramount Theater. Chris knows he has to walk on icy eggshells to be able to go to the show because manic Lauren is rapidly approaching a bi-polar peak, that will soon give way to murderously angry, obsidian depression. Because when Lauren is depressed, nobody gets to have fun.