Eleven year old Ethan Harris lives a terror filled life of abuse and extreme cruelty at the hands of his sadistic stepfather. Ethan sometimes thinks of running away, sometimes of suicide but he stays thinking he is watching out for his mother. After an act of hideous brutality, Ethan makes his choice and in a desperate move leaps from his second floor bedroom window, not to die but to escape. He stows away in a mobile home being shipped by truck out...