It is July 1977. Son of Sam is on the loose and New York City is in the midst of a brutal heat wave. Sixteen year old Mary Claire and her best friend Mary Francis start that day sunning themselves on the roof of an Ozone Park row house. Younger sister Reenie is searching for her lost Greek Mythology class project, while their parents are consumed by the battles of their troubled marriage. The boy crazy Marys hatch a plan to stay out all night, but an overstressed electrical grid leads to a city-wide blackout and a sudden loss of innocence.

Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, Finalist, Terrence McNally Playwriting Award, Source Theater Festival, Jane Chambers Award honoree. Included on the 2014 edition of "The List" complied by the Kilroys as “one of the most excellent new plays by female-identified authors of the last year”.

"Her most accomplished work to date...a splendid memory play." - NJ Arts

"Tammy Ryan's dialogue is rapid fire, she has tapped into the ghosts of family everywhere...a big, thick, slice of life that is fiction, non fiction, experience, observation, life and love and struggle and you need to see it."
- Q Onstage