Convicts

"A young boy comes of age observing the violent scenes on a Texas Gulf Coast cane field in 1902--even as life seems to be cycling to an end for an imposing plantation boss who survives by using convict labor to work in his fields."@en
"The story of young orphan, Horace Robedaux, who ends up working as a laborer on a sugar plantation and befriends the prisoners who work the fields."@en
"A homeless orphan finds himself employed as a common laborer on a mythical sugar plantation with a violently unpredictable owner. The orphan befriends the convicts who work in the fields and gets some surprising answers to the big questions of life."@en
"The story of Horace Robedaux, a young man working the land for plantation owner Soll Gautier so that he can raise enough money to pay for a tombstone for his father's grave. It becomes increasingly clear that Soll's current mental state may prevent Horace from ever collecting his wages."@en