New York 2006: Jack and Irena's son, Mark, is one of the many kids born with deformities as a result of the radiations from the Chernobyl disaster. Mark is twenty, disfigured, and constantly torn between his bursts of murderous violence and subsequent pain and regret. A tale of the love and hatred between Mark, a freak and a social outcast, and his father Jack, an aged and tired man who finds his only relief in the poems he reads to his comatose wife, doomed to vegetate in a bed. A tale of murder, regret, betrayal and suspense.