John Guare's tale of the painful yet enduring power of American Idealism. Hurling from comedy to tragedy, satire to melodrama, Lydie Breeze tells the story of a failed commune in late 19th Century Nantucket and its aftermath. Years after a scandalous end, the children return to sift through their pasts and heal the confusion in their lives, only to find themselves sucked into age-old rivalries and buried desires, all the while haunted by memories of the commune's dominating spirit, Lydie Breeze.