The film followed attorney Joshua Safran and his law partner's efforts to free wrongfully imprisoned domestic violence survivor Deborah Peagler.
[1] Safran's memoir, Free Spirit: Growing Up On the Road and Off the Grid, was published September 10, 2013 by Hachette Book Group.
[2] Publishers Weekly gave it a starred review, stating "This assured debut is reminiscent of David Sedaris’s and Augusten Buroughs’s best work: introspective, hilarious, and heartbreaking".
"[4] Free Spirit follows Safran's life story from his birth in a San Francisco commune,[5] to traveling the American west with his single mother as she searched for Utopia.
Joshua Safran is a nationally recognized champion for the rights of women and a zealous advocate for survivors of domestic violence and the wrongfully imprisoned.