A Father’s Impossible Dreams, A Mother’s Destructive Love: An Immigration Story: Johanna is a mother caught between wanting her children to get ahead and realizing that she may have to lose them to a foreign culture for them to do so. Jonas embraces all that is new and American. Johanna refuses to learn English. Their four daughters are caught between his fantastic dreams and her crippling fears. These family stories of high hopes and unfulfilled dreams are the stories of many immigrants, reflecting much about life in the west at the turn of the last century.

“Is this our Sacrifice to the new land? Our love for each other?” – Jonas, Act II

Kennedy Center ACTF Regional Playwriting Award

 Winner of the David Library Award for Best Play About the American Experience