Cardy is a teenage boy struggling with his family's dysfunction, his brother's popularity, and his own social life with new chemical substances in his system. This is a coming of age story in the 90's where peer pressure guided his actions and thoughts led to more addictions. Divorce, death, suicide, abortion, religion, drugs, alcohol, sex and violence all rolled into Cardy's life during the first story of his trilogy (Wasted, Puzzled, and True: Pages of Pierre).