While assembling works for a new exhibit featuring the often unusual genre of Outsider Art, Dr. Dulcinea (Dulcie) Chambers encounters an enormously talented and equally troubled young man, Xander Bellamy. An autistic savant, Xander has not communicated with anyone for several months since his father was sent to prison for the murder of Xander's domineering grandfather.

When the police had originally thought that Xander was the murderer, Xander's father quickly confessed. Was he simply trying to save his son from being committed to an institution for the criminally insane?...