Paula’s mother has died. Her husband has left her. Despondent and with minimal choices, Paula moves into her late mother’s apartment with Dierdre, the blonde-haired, blue-eyed WASP she met in a grief support group. Having given up her career as a photographer to get married and have children over a decade ago, Paula, a daughter of Jewish East Harlem, grapples with the disparity between how she wanted her life to pan out and then what actually happened. Nights of Broken Glass is a play about living with the legacies of our choices, the compromises we make for security, and the bitterness of other people's success. In other words: One woman’s mid-forties in the mid- ‘60s in Harlem.