The entire year is 1991, also Spud Milton walk to manhood is creeping along in an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching symptoms of the anticipated ball-drop but the old age of fifteen, Spud is visiting terms with the fact that he may be described as a freak of nature. The year appears to offer little except extreme embarrassment and mortifying Milton madness with a grandmother, a father building a killing out of attempting to sell moonshine, and also a mommy hellbent on emigrating named Wombat. But Spud is returning to a boarding school where he is not any longer the most economical or the smallest. His dormitory mates, known as the Crazy Eight, have an odd new member and his house features a new clutch of first years (the Conventional Seven). In case Spud believes his year will soon be a piece of cake he's seriously mistaken.