Nowhere to Run -- Film Description:
"A ten-year-old boy whose mother dies, runs away from an orphanage. His quest is to buy his mother a tombstone, but he is killed in an attempt to get money."
-- Canadian Film Institute / Institut canadien de film

Source:
Clarkson, Marg, ed. Film Canadiana: The Canadian Film Institute Yearbook of Canadian Cinema / L'Annuaire du cinéma canadien de l'Institut canadien de film, 1977-1978. Ottawa: Canadian Film Institute / Institut canadien de film, 1978. [English / French]