It's 1950 something. David E Strider is 15. David had a normal life. He lived at home with his father, his mother had passed away when he was 7. That's what he was told. He lived in a nice home within a nice suburban neighborhood and his best friend lived right by him. But that was his old life. Thats before things changed. Before he was registered into Skaian Institute for the Mentally Insane.