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In the farmhouse of what's left of a large farm in Northern Virginia USA, a family has just lost their mother, who succumbed to dementia and old age. She was white. Her natural son from another marriage long ago who is also white is 30 and has been the caretaker for her and her husband, who is Black, for years. Their other son, also his from a previous marriage long ago, is Black. The time is now, or...
In the farmhouse of what's left of a large farm in Northern Virginia USA, a family has just lost their mother, who succumbed to dementia and old age. She was white. Her natural son from another marriage long ago who is also white is 30 and has been the caretaker for her and her husband, who is Black, for years. Their other son, also his from a previous marriage long ago, is Black. The time is now, or thereabouts. The forces pulling on the unraveling family defy stereotype and cliche as they alternately battle and plead with each other to shape the future of the family - or are they repeating an entire country's doomed past? By turns funny, tragic, poetic, unhinged, disarming, and armed - not entirely unlike the South of today - dirt leaves the audience with many questions, and plenty to consider about brotherhood... maybe even in a new way.