JOSEFA - Shy Bird's flight to freedom

1785 - The Mosquito Coast. Torn away from her native forest home and plunged into abject slavery, lovely "Shy Bird" becomes "Josefa". Alone in the mangrove, the young Indian girl gives birth to a boy child, the fruit of her brutal master's assaults. Fearing for her child's life, and against all odds, she decides to make a dash for freedom. This is her story.