"The very first thing she did to begin with was take the blades I was sharpening from out of my hands, and that made me get even more afraid by thinking she must have gotten to know all about me, and she was going to cut me wide."
Riddled by an intense fear of his bizarre secret being discovered, the narrator of Nalda Said grows up in the strange seclusion of a shoddy caravan with his Aunt Nalda, whose own colourful storytelling leaves him perpetually trapped between fantasy and reality.

Nalda's nephew eventually finds work as a hospital gardener where, perhaps for the first time, he finds true friendship and begins to realise that his dark secret has been suffocating what hope he had of ever leading a normal life.

Finding himself in love, this socially disjointed figure struggles to reconcile his own curious view of the world with the stark daily reality that most people are forced to live with. Yet, his own bleak battle to break free from these mental shackles oddly reflects the desperation of the very same people who cruelly poke fun at him.

Nalda Said is a disturbing, compelling and brilliantly crafted tale of one man's pained anxiety and desperate search for his dream - to live a normal life.