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Seventeen-year-old Dario Heyward narrates--with a mix of honesty, wry humor, and unresolved resentment--growing up in a dysfunctional family who lived (and acted) in an equally dysfunctional B-horror movie studio called Moldavia. Steeped in the culture of horror filmmaking, the story is peopled by memorable, wacky characters who all play roles in Dario's coming to terms with his weird, difficult, and unique life.