The Boy

In the Deep South a mentally disturbed fugitive trying to forget his past and fleeing the law finds an injured boy alongside a country road. He helps the boy only to betray him. Kidnapping the boy, he must flee a sadistically insane father who loves his son – too much. As the boy, taught to have love he must surrender his body, comes to love him, the man fights the inevitable and his alter egos to fulfill a promise and save the boy. Enraged by his son's betrayal, the father pursues the pair cross country, aided by the law. He is tailed by a young black deputy who wants only promotion and escape. When the chase goes beyond his jurisdiction the deputy finds himself driven to discover the mystery behind the boy's abduction, and the truth behind the father's twisted relationship with his son, finding himself caught between doing what is best for the child, or best for himself.