When Brother Sebastian, nee Michael Lamb, runs away from a bleak reformatory, taking with him twelve-year-old Owen Kane, the media and police call it a kidnapping. For Lamb, though, it is the rescue of an abused boy from a place of no hope, a last grasp for elusive happiness. But as the outside world closes in, as time and money run out, Lamb finds himself moving towards a solution as shocking as it is loving.