In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mote`s diaries, the Mole family is in crisis and the country is beating the drum of war. While his parents have reconciled after both embarking on disastrous affairs, Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother`s pregnancy. And even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones and the fickle whims of the divine Pandora, a victim of a broken home and his own tortured (though unrecognized) genius, Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains and pleasures of a misspent adolescence.