Gem of the Ocean

Aunt Esther, the drama’s 287 year old fiery matriarch, welcomes into her Hill District home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama searching for a new life. She sets him on a spiritual journey to find a city in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. The essential quality of strength, endurance, and community is the adhesive that connects the characters together.