Set during a holiday gathering, the play centers on a prominent Black conservative who returns to his family home with his mysteriously ailing wife, reigniting long-standing personal and political tensions. Framed by a shifting landscape of 1980s cultural and ideological forces—including Reaganomics, espionage fears, roller disco, and fringe spiritual movements—the story unfolds through fractured memory and competing truths. The action is punctuated by interludes from the Syracuse chapter of the Seedlings of Peace Children’s Chorus, whose presence offers a counterpoint to the domestic and national unrest simmering beneath the surface.