Jack is a 'freak' kept away from school in his youth and shunned by his local community in adulthood due to his terrible physical deformities. Holly is a young girl growing up alone with her mother, facing the pains and frustrations of a belated adolescence and of having to deal with the threat she sees posed by her mum's new boyfriend.
When these two lonely souls unexpectedly come together, and form a bond around the pigs that Jack rears, they realise they must keep their friendship hidden from the prejudices and intolerance of those around them. But with Jack's abusive mother dying, and with Holly's supposed best-friend, Samantha, determined to cause trouble, how long can they keep their secret?

Narrated alternately by the beautifully rendered voices of Jack and Holly, Pigtopia is a tale of violence and foreboding, a dark moral fable for our times. It is also though a story of compassion, escape and the faint hope of redemption.