Patch has his foot amputated & Lars dives into Patch’s earliest memories of growing up in post-atomic-bomb Japan. Weaving conversations with Patch and his older brother, Wildman, Lars learns about his subversive great grandfather, an anti-establishmentarian Victorian-era writer whose writing echoes Patch’s inflammatory ethos on mental health, compassion & capitalism PLUS Lars digs into Patch’s youthful same-sex adventures in a repressed society & Patch celebrates being out of the closet.

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