Rick Schwartz is a good-hearted middle-schooler with Asperger's syndrome. At school he has no friends, except for a geeky girl named Tanisha with whom he speaks a lot about pop culture and movies, but after the end of middle school he never sees her anymore. He meets a girl named Jules during a project for Asperger's to meet each other, and they two become close for their common love for anime, but after a year she tells him she doesn't want to talk him anymore. Rick becomes closer to the cousin of his cousin, spending a wonderful summer with her, but she develops suicidal thoughts and can't stay with him anymore.
The setting jumps to 2043, where Rick lives with his brother and relies on a disability pension. Thinking about his past, Rick kills himself.
