The book by Paul Collins, American writer, journalist and historian of science, combines a dramatic story about his son autistic and kind of "scientific detective". Remembering half-forgotten geniuses and exploring medical archives, and the writer himself begins to understand why he had devoted his life to the study of the lives of talented eccentrics, and in turn explains to the reader why these stories are important and even necessary in order to shed light on the problem of autism. For a wide range of readers.