The Search for Freedom

When Fredrick gets sick, his master decides he’s outlived his usefulness and plans to kill him. Determined to live, the seventeen-year-old steals his master’s horse and leaves behind his sister—the only family he has left.

Soon he finds a home with Mathew, a farmer whose six-year-old had died in his arms only months before, followed shortly by his older, grief-stricken son running away. His wife Victoria, devastated from the past events and unable to focus on anything for long, withdraws int...