We meet our cast first in their pigsty moment. Anjela is cowering beside a dumpster in the alley, fighting off rats. Claire is all alone, away from her family, after leaving them. Tim is chasing after his family, as his wife takes the kids and leaves. But before the story continues from there, ...

Anjela believes that the dancing gig is just a short-term diversion to save for college, and the pills are just to help her keep going. Claire thinks that she deserves to live the life of her dreams after putting her family’s needs first for so long. Tim thinks that the extra hours are a necessar...

Anjela in the alley, fending off rats. Tim in his driveway, his family pulling away. Claire, away from her family, in a new home, entertaining an old lover. Lying in the pigsty, they are alone. The distant country has exacted its price, and they are left with nothing. It’s in this rock-bottom mo...

Still in the pigsty of their own making, our characters undergo an agonizing awakening: the promise of the distant country was a lie, and they’ve lost everything. But that’s not the end of the journey. Anjela & Claire find the strength to take the next painful step. Confiding in another dancer at...

Anjela and Claire are still in the distant country, still dealing with the mess they have made of their lives. Claire has estranged herself from her family, and Anjela is trapped in a
lifestyle of drugs and dancing in a strip club. Both have fully owned the fact that they brought their
circumst...

Anjela travels home, rehearsing a speech that she plans to give her father, begging for forgiveness. But she never gets a chance to deliver it, because her father rushes out of the diner and embraces her in the middle of the street. Forgiven and restored and the guest of honor at an impromptu par...