diff --git a/src/main.rs b/src/main.rs
index e7a11a9..d41bc20 100644
--- a/src/main.rs
+++ b/src/main.rs
@@ -1,3 +1,57 @@
-fn main() {
-    println!("Hello, world!");
+// Note that we use `capnp` here, NOT `capnpc`
+extern crate capnp;
+
+// We create a module here to define how we are to access the code
+// being included.
+pub mod point_capnp {
+    // The environment variable OUT_DIR is set by Cargo, and
+    // is the location of all the code that was built as part
+    // of the codegen step.
+    // point_capnp.rs is the actual file to include
+    include!(concat!(env!("OUT_DIR"), "/point_capnp.rs"));
+}
+
+fn main() {
+
+    // The process of building a Cap'N Proto message is a bit tedious.
+    // We start by creating a generic Builder; it acts as the message
+    // container that we'll later be filling with content of our `Point`
+    let mut builder = capnp::message::Builder::new_default();
+
+    // Because we need a mutable reference to the `builder` later,
+    // we fence off this part of the code to allow sequential mutable
+    // borrows. As I understand it, non-lexical lifetimes:
+    // https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-roadmap/issues/16
+    // will make this no longer necessary
+    {
+        // And now we can set up the actual message we're trying to create
+        let mut point_msg = builder.init_root::<point_capnp::point::Builder>();
+
+        // Stuff our message with some content
+        point_msg.set_x(12);
+
+        point_msg.set_y(14);
+    }
+
+    // It's now time to serialize our message to binary. Let's set up a buffer for that:
+    let mut buffer = Vec::new();
+
+    // And actually fill that buffer with our data
+    capnp::serialize::write_message(&mut buffer, &builder).unwrap();
+
+    // Finally, let's deserialize the data
+    let deserialized = capnp::serialize::read_message(
+        &mut buffer.as_slice(),
+        capnp::message::ReaderOptions::new()
+    ).unwrap();
+
+    // `deserialized` is currently a generic reader; it understands
+    // the content of the message we gave it (i.e. that there are two
+    // int32 values) but doesn't really know what they represent (the Point).
+    // This is where we map the generic data back into our schema.
+    let point_reader = deserialized.get_root::<point_capnp::point::Reader>().unwrap();
+
+    // We can now get our x and y values back, and make sure they match
+    assert_eq!(point_reader.get_x(), 12);
+    assert_eq!(point_reader.get_y(), 14);
 }