When Gershom finds out that he's being moved to yet another foster home, he grabs his sister and together they run away to find their birth mother, who just happens to live eight states away, in Alabama. The siblings face hunger, loneliness, and fear, but with the help of strangers-and God-they manage to survive. When they arrive at their destination, what awaits them is not what they expected. Will the siblings ever find the family they are looking...