What kind of hunger is so powerful, so insatiable that it cannot be satisfied? How does one describe such a hunger? How does one respond to it? The living examples of this type of hunger are all around us.

A young boy is lying on a cot in a dark room. He tosses and turns, fretting and frantic in a sleepless night. The room is warm, his stomach is full, but he is so hungry. He is sleeping on a bed, but it is not his bed. He is living with a family, but it is not his family.

His mother was killed in a domestic argument, and his father is in prison. He lives in his mother's sister's house, with his mother's sister's children. His eyes replay the scene of his mother's death over and over again. He was too young to stop his father from killing his mother, and he is too old to ever forget. And so …