a tough life get tougher when the three child of a single mom be schedule to be send to separate foster home after her untimely passing . to stay together and the old boy plan a daring and high risk escape to find a distant lose uncle their only remain next of kin . their trek take the three fearful runaway on a chase through the desert in a classic beetle and penniless and hungry and desperate and terrorize by delinquent and too young to drive and hunt by the ever threaten civil authority . what the movie lack in act and plot realism and it make up for in the honest human need to be a part of a fulfilled and complete family even if that family be cobble together with spare part of broken life . sure and the end be force and too over dramatic for the critical movie goer and but every heart beat the same cry for family togetherness and belonging . with all it weakness and i still give this movie a strong recommendation .