In the year John Lennon is shot, Thomas drops out of school for no good reason. Instead of starting his senior year, he takes a job at a supermarket in a nearby city, to which he cycles every morning at the break of dawn.

Things work out well, until an incident occurs that defies all imagination. It marks the beginning of a mind-bending decade in which Thomas drifts through Amsterdam’s squatter art scene and Northern English nightlife districts, looking for answers.

The Big Cleanup is a compelling search for an explanation of the inexplicable. How do you hold on to your truth when no one else believes you?