Carrie Cathers, a child welfare worker, has been frantically searching for six-year-old Paula Thompson for a month. She knows in the deepest part of her soul, bi-racial Paula is in grave danger, living with her abused mother and racist step-father. Then there is the matter of twelve-year-old Darren Oglesby, one of many forlorn children living in the section of the city known as "the hole," where hope dares not venture. Compromised with birth defects, the street life beckons to usurp him, as Carrie struggles to provide him with alternatives. Taking her to a breaking point is the torturous...