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With Mama gone to the only place where people stay forever, Mabey now spends her after-school hours at Papa's junkyard. Just when things are beginning to look up, a stranger named Aggy begins to threaten Papa with words that Mabey cannot quite understand. By turns heartrending and hopeful, The Listening is a quiet but powerful tale about a little girl's first experiences with love, loss, race, and forgiveness.

Georgia in den Nachwehen des Amerikanischen Bürgerkriegs: Ein aus der Sklaverei befreites, aber mittelloses Brüderpaar verdingt sich auf einer Farm, deren Besitzer um seinen im Krieg gefallenen Sohn trauert. Zwischen den dreien entwickelt sich eine zarte, bis dahin undenkbare Freundschaft. Doch nicht alle Bewohner von Old Ox sehen solche neuartigen Allianzen gern. Nicht lange, und die Angst vor der neuen Welt bricht sich Bahn in blinder Raserei.

The normal American has far more than they need, yet still feel incredibly insecure, needing to grasp it all tightly and continue to gain more. This isn’t just true with our acquisition of things, but also in the way we approach all resources that God has given to us: our time, gifts and talents, our families, and our lives themselves. What is the solution to this problem?

Nos últimos dias da Guerra Civil Americana, os irmãos Prentiss e Landry – libertos pela Proclamação de Emancipação – buscam refúgio na propriedade de George Walker e de sua esposa, Isabelle. Os Walkers, arruinados pela perda de seu único filho na guerra, contratam os irmãos para trabalhar em sua fazenda, esperando que essa amizade inesperada estanque a dor de seu luto. Já Prentiss e Landry planejam economizar dinheiro para viajar ao norte, em busca de uma chance de se reunirem com a mãe, vendida quando eram meninos.