Set in San Francisco at the end of the depression, "The Runaway", is a fable about a homeless man named Henry Blossom who is unexpectedly befriended by a nine-year old runaway girl named Lillie Whitaker. A partnership forms and a friendship blossoms, as the two become a successful street-performing duo. Meanwhile, both the police and Lillie's rich and powerful father J.W. Whitaker and socialite mother, search for their abducted daughter.
—Brandon Clay Thomas