The retrieval / Variance Films and Doki-Doki Films ; in association with Arts + Labor and Sixth Street Films present ; produced by Jacom Esquivel, Jason Wehling ; written and directed by Chris Eska.
Originally produced in 2013. Ashton Sanders, Tishuan Scott, Keston John, Bill Oberst Jr., Christine Horn.
Summary:
1864: As war ravages the nation, on the outskirts of the Civil War, it is business as usual for slave-owners and traders. Will is a fatherless thirteen-year-old boy who survives by working with a white bounty hunter gang. They send him to earn the trust of runaway slaves in order to lure them back to the south. On a dangerous mission into the free north to find Nate, a fugitive freedman, things go wrong, and Will and Nate find themselves on the run.
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