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The year is 1933, and the country is in the midst of the Great Depression. Ross, fourteen years old and on the road after a confrontation with his father, catches rides on boxcars and sleeps wherever he can find shelter. One morning he wakes up in a barn filled with smoke and is spotted fleeing from the burning building. Soon afterwards he stumbles upon the Warfields, a kind family burdened with their own hardships. They offer him a place to stay and seem to need him as much as he needs them. Ross already has a family - the parents and brothers and sisters he left behind. But he grows closer to the Warfields and grapples with the mystery of the barn burner's identity, the probability of his returning home seems less and less likely.
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