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Take a journey into the mind of the unplanned, unwanted and unprepared world of an orphan boy in the foster care system. The path is narrow the stakes are high and every ounce of energy The Orphan can muster is spent searching for the unconditional love that a parent has for their natural born child.
Reading into the darkest depths of humanity The Orphan must venture into the slippery slope of sin to provide the clothes on his back, food in his belly and love in his heart. Twist your mind around The Orphan’s exhausting pace to outrun the demons of his past while holding out hope for the future. With a life at stake, this epic tale is a modern day battle between good and evil for the soul of boy looking for refuge and redemption from his life of solitude and sin.
Just when all seems lost, The Orphan is adopted and taken away from the slums of his beginning and into the world of love, laughter and belonging. But not all is as it seems as The Orphan struggles to adjust to this foreign environment and starts to quickly and methodically tear his new family apart. Can this new family keep it together as The Orphan uses every tool in his arsenal to push them away or will they be able to give him the one thing that has eluded him his whole life, “a permanent family?”