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Gabi is 17, lives in Hamilton Heights and wants to be a Kickboxing trainer. Her mother Alma, survived the Shining Path wars in Peru in the early 90s, was relocated to Manhattan and now her trauma doesn't allow her to leave home. Gabi has had to recur to small-time cons with her best pal Marquez in order to stay afloat and pay bills. But the week Marquez proposes a larger fraud operation, she finds herself...
Gabi is 17, lives in Hamilton Heights and wants to be a Kickboxing trainer. Her mother Alma, survived the Shining Path wars in Peru in the early 90s, was relocated to Manhattan and now her trauma doesn't allow her to leave home. Gabi has had to recur to small-time cons with her best pal Marquez in order to stay afloat and pay bills. But the week Marquez proposes a larger fraud operation, she finds herself in Zuccotti Park getting involved with Occupy Wall Street, protesting the 1% and falling in love with Sienna, one of its leaders. This Mother-Daughter separation escalates into Alma's pain reaching a point of no-return, and Gabi being forced to face her identity as an immigrant and first generation Peruvian-American. This is a play about how to journey from Trauma to Reconciliation. How to keep ourselves above the surface during a time of crisis; financially, physically, emotionally. How to force fantasy into our lives in order to survive. And how to help each other up when we fall down.