The 1930s: As the Great Depression deepens and her family disintegrates, Maddy Skobel flees her central Ohio town -- by freight train -- determined to make her own way. Learning to survive as a hobo while facing hardship, danger, and violence, Maddy...
In 1931, while riding the rails in the early years of the Great Depression, Maddy Skobel, desperate for food, knocked on the door of a young, pregnant mother's house in Steamburg, New York, and was given a bowl of chili she has never forgotten. In th...