In an interactive classroom at a community college, several campuses from several counties attend a Philosophy class at the same time via television, cameras and sensitive microphones. In the Lenoir City interactive classroom, three students sitting side by side pass notes to one another carrying on their own conversations each class meeting to keep from being totally bored to tears. Sliding notes back and forth was the only way to keep their conversations pretty much private...or else several other campuses would hear everything being said about the class, the teacher, life in general. In...

The Hawke kids embark on escaping their mother's abuse. Marie is an abusive alcoholic. Their uncle steps in to help, He calls the kids father, Alex, who comes to get the kids. The twins Leigh and Ricky, and their younger brother Tommy know their best chances of surviving is to live with their father...they have to make The Journey from possible death to a much better life.