Traces of a Boy is the out-loud-narration diary of an injured child in search of untroubled peace. It's a story that exposes the barbarity of opposite-sex incest, bone-breaking violence, and the depraved indifference of mainstream society.
It betrays the lengths of desperation innocent children will go to survive the unsurvivable.
It submits the scathing indictment of human cruelty and shines an uncomfortable light on those four things that most accurately define Canadians: willful blindness, depraved indifference, American grandeur worship, and of course, social amnesia.
It offers up the aching confession of an early-life trauma survivor and a dying man who knows full well he's not without considerable blame himself.