In the movie Running For Grace, an orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc’s medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine runner meets the daughter of the plantation owner and a forbidden, young love blossoms like the white “Kona Snow” of the surrounding coffee trees.
Running For Grace is a timeless tale that takes place against the backdrop of the segregated coffee fields in 1920s Hawaii, and is a coming-of-age journey about a young man who transcends the boundaries of race and class in pursuit of a forbidden love.
