Keith Carradine and Annette O'Toole star in this powerful family drama adapted from the best-selling novel 'The Sign of The Beaver' by Elizabeth George Speare that's become required reading in schools throughout the country.--Keeping the Promise begins as the hopeful tale of a colonial family seeking a new and promising life in the deep wilderness of Maine in 1768. But their hopes, dreams, and very survival as a family are severely tested when the father reluctantly leaves his 13-year-old son, Matt, alone in the wilderness to protect their claim until he can return with the rest of the family and their belongings.--Weeks of waiting turn into months, and months into seasons, as his family struggles against a deadly epidemic and other hardships in their journey to rejoin their boy.--Young Matt's ability to survive his lonely and dangerous vigil becomes more questionable with each passing day... until he's befriended by a band of Penobscot Indians. The experience transforms Matt as his Indian benefactors teach him life's most important lessons about survival, trust, loyalty and hope.