Carrie Cathers, a child welfare worker, has been frantically searching for six-year-old Paula Thompson for a month. She knows in the deepest part of her soul, bi-racial Paula is in grave danger, living with her abused mother and racist step-father. Then there is the matter of twelve-year-old Darren Oglesby, one of many forlorn children living in the section of the city known as "the hole", where hope dares not venture. Compromised with birth defects,...