Description
Homeless Korean adoptee mother with her dreads in a braid, waits tables at a busy NorCal cash only diner frequented by growers, rock stars, dreamers, tycoons, and tourists alike. At night, she and her four children sleep in the back of the van that has been their home ever since wildfires ramped up, gentrification (a different sort of natural disaster) swooped in, and the intentional community/commune where they used to live – off-grid on 300-acres in a canvas tent – disbanded and the property was sold.
She hustles hard during a Sunday shift, knocking her already unstable colleagues out of the way, hoping tips will save her. But, with each order she takes, each customer interaction serves only to bring her closer to her ghosts until all the platters come crashing and she must reconcile death, suicide, love and motherhood and the loss of more than just one co-worker.
Intricately woven, lyric, and atmospherically layered, Sidework makes the mystic and mythic the mundane.
