Erkki Lahja, a kind hearted boy from a crumbling family in a crumbling neighborhood, tries his best just to move through life and protect his friends in the bright summer of 1975. He also seems to be the only one oblivious to the fantastic chain of events that unfold miraculously around him. A chain that wraps around him tighter and tighter pulling him deeper into the world of mobsters, dirty cops, and madmen. Erkki's social worker is convinced he's schizophrenic, his new foster guardian has come to believe he's a prophet, the man who calls himself the law just wants his head on a pike, and...