A play in three acts.
Farley House has been built by the sweat and blood of the Farley patriarch to be a home in which to raise his young family, and for better or for worse, the Farley family is dedicated to staying together—except for one, Christina, who leaves to answer her calling in a convent.
Years later, Sister Christina sets the stage for this dispiriting narrative when she comes to spend a Christmas with her family in their childhood home, expecting to find the happy and unified family she had left behind. What she finds instead are the wearied, disillusioned hearts of a family kept together only by the walls of their mansion, but broken in spirit.
As things come to a head, a family, once strong but now crumbling apart, is forced to face its future and answer to it—if they can even see clear enough to find a future still...