It\'s the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany.
On the precipice of adulthood, Dion begins to spill the secrets of his heart--his burning desire for faultless speech and his abiding relationship with his mother, a failed painter with secrets o.
An only child plagued with a devastating stutter, Dion is ostracized by his peers and finds solace in the company of nature, collecting dragonflies in a Moor filled with myths and legends.
It\'s the early 1970s and Dion Katthusen, thirteen, is growing up fatherless in a small village in northern Germany