Sure, he has his friends – his dorm mates, but Mark is socially awkward. He doesn’t know how to express his emotions, his thoughts. When he was eight, he peed in his pants because he didn’t dare to ask his teacher for permission to go to the toilet. Also, it took him an entire month of rehearsing what to say to his family when he finally found out and accepted his own sexuality. He was mentally prepared to receive a blow on his face by his father, the lash of his mother’s acid tongue, and his siblings’ looks of horror and disgust. However, all that mental preparation and rehearsals had gone to waste.