The finding of his skull-smashed corpse requires re-opening the case of handsome teenager Andy Rierdan, who disappeared three years earlier from a residential high school for deaf students. He was popular and gifted, but struggled with loyalty to the deaf community, including his parents and best buddy Carlos, for getting a cochlear implant for better changes in the regular world, maybe even resuming his pianist career before he went deaf, and budding love with Emma Walker, a court-ordered 'volunteer'.
—KGF Vissers