Lu Chi Fa became an orphan in 1944 when he was three years old. He was shuffled from one house to another as his relatives, one by one, turned him away. Sold to a Communist chief to be trained as a laborer, Chi Fa spent his childhood fighting for survival. He was always hungry, often cold, and he was mistreated and even beaten by those who took him in. But always he remembered his sister`s words to him: You are lucky. Good fortune will find you. With courage and strength of spirit to help him, Chi Fa did find a way to make his dreams of freedom come true.