Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs to visit her parents after a six-year absence. A once promising novelist, she announces to her family the imminent publication of a memoir dredging up a pivotal and tragic event in the family's history -- a wound her parents don't want repoened,
Brooke has come home to draw a line in the sand and is daring her family to cross it. Her brother won't play her game, her aunt knows way too much and her parents fall into their old routines as they plead with her to keep their story quiet.
In smplest terms the play is about a girl who comes home to the deser with a story about where she is from, who her people really are, what she thinks they really are. Her parents represent an Establishment that she feels has betrayed this country. She goes to war with them.