Freddie Blochs is a young 13-year-old boy in 1933 California whose life falls apart when his single father abandons the family and his older brother is arrested for robbing a local store to provide for the two. Believing his father may have gone to Detroit to get work in the auto industry, Freddie becomes a hobo but quickly is made aware of the dangerous life of traveling the rails when a group of hobos try and rob and sexually assault him.
Freddie Blochs is a young 13-year-old boy in 1933 California whose life falls apart when his single father abandons the family and his older brother is arrested for robbing a local store to provide for the two. Believing his father may have gone to Detroit to get work in the auto industry, Freddie becomes a hobo but quickly is made aware of the dangerous life of traveling the rails when a group of hobos try and rob and sexually assault him.