Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

Combining the talents of Cronenberg and Burroughs was bound to produce weird results, and weird they surely are. Themes such as drugs and homosexuality are all explored as bug-killer powder addict Lee withdraws into his malformed psyche. With veins like yours kid!!! find out more...