It is 1968. Lynnie, a young white girl with a developmental disability and Homan, an African-American deaf man are locked away in the SCHOOL FOR THE INCURABLE AND FEEBLEMINDED and have been left to languish in the institution, forgotten. Deeply in love, they escape and find refuge in the farmhouse of Martha, a retired schoolteacher and widow. But, the couple in not alone, Lynnie has just given birth to a baby girl. When the authorities catch up to them the same night, Homan escapes into the darkness and Lynnie is caught. Before she is forced back into the institution, she whispers two words to Martha: "HIDE HER."
And so begins, the forty-year, epic journey of Lynnie, Homan, Martha and baby Julia.....lives divided by seemingly insurmountable obstacles, yet drawn together by a secret place and extraordinary love.
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