it be very doubtful anyone can fully grasp the emptiness inside a child life when search for a reason behind his cold empty silence . yet when deal with the scar of child abuse and not even the great medical or psychological specialist will ever be able to fathom nor even comprehend the severity of the wound . this film be call mysterious skin and it be base on the highly acclaim novel by scott heim . within it graphic page and emerge the black image which relate the tragedy reveal in this film . the story be of the nightmarish memory of two boy and neil and brian ( chase ellison and joseph levitt a neil and ( george webster and brady corbet ) who recall their early experience with their little league coach ( bill sage ) . each boy deal with the sexual abuse in different way . neil become a prostitute and search for unrequited love in quick sordid affair in the back seat of car and squalid apartment and while brian believe he be abduct by alien . it take year of patience discovery and to learn what happen and but in the end and each own a piece of the dark puzzle and with sympathetic understanding they approach the answer together . the movie encapsulate the suffering of many and but only those who have visit the pit of despair will ever understand their pain . excellent film . .