While there were parts of this story and characters that I enjoyed it felt in many ways like an afterschool special and I was being taught a lesson on bullying, on parenting, on behaviour. I didn't really feel connected to the characters in a way that their story moved me beyond anything more than a clinical observational way but it was a fine parable.One thing that seemed square peggy: the BDSM, that felt odd and out of place here and the most jarring lesson