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WHO AM I? Where is home?

 

  

After losing her memory, identity, love and home,                                she lost all hope.

.....until she lost her slippery glasses 

and found her name was Hope


 

Slippery Glasses is a modern-day fairy tale 

with jaw-dropping twists  and  absurdities

...like Cinderella meets Alfred Hitchcock in

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way

to the Forum.




But its appearances envelop a deeper meaning.

Have you ever had to say goodbye  to the home you once knew?  

Have you ever seen your hometown vanish in a rearview mirror or airplane window?

then arrived someplace new---alone---

and had to start over?

Have you ever left your family or lost a loved one?

or stayed in one place while your loved ones were slowly replaced by busy lives,  phones or websites?


Then Slippery Glasses will speak to you.






It's about a nearsighted 17-year-old girl who escapes into movies to forget the home she once had with her mother.  She meets an undocumented boy who hides with a family of ghosts and dreams of a home he never knew.       

As their stories merge, Slippery Glasses becomes 

a timely tale of immigration wrapped around a timeless, universal story about our longing

for belonging and home. 




 

 

 

 

  

Synopsis

After a desperate bid for freedom with an undocumented street performer, a nearsighted teen betrothed to the mob loses her memory in a blast. Dropped into a bizarre musical dreamworld with only a shopaholic ghost mother and an overcaffeinated wrestling partner to help, she must find her identity and home before the mob finds her, immigration takes her love, and their dream of a home is lost forever. 

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