A heart-stopping story that highlights the failure of the agencies we trust to protect the most vulverable among us—and a truth more powerful than we could imagine. Abuse reports from neighbors draw attention to twele-year-old Alexey who runs away to hide in the woods. The local child protection agency sends the director of the children's home to visit Alexey and his younger sisters, Anastasia and Svetlana. But despite her compelling report the agency believes the denials of the adoptive mother and leaves the children in the abusive home. Knowing the horrible truth, the direector faces one obstacle after another as she tries to find someone to protect the children from the unspeakable.

DEAD DOG ROAD—a place where secrets are buried like the injured fighting dogs who are dumped there.