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A Long Way Home

  • TV Movie
  • Drama

December 6, 1981 (US)

1h 40m

A married teenager sets out to find his long-lost brother and sister years after all three had been placed with different families following their abandonment by their migrant worker parents. Luckily, he finds a compassionate social worker who, at first reluctantly, decides to he...

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