How Is It That We Live or Shakey Jake + Alice follows two lifelong lovers, who move in and out of each other’s lives. Two mysterious, sometimes unreliable narrators who tell us their tale and take part in it. The play presents us with the ideals, thoughts, passions, joys and sorrows of two ordinary/extraordinary people. They are their own particular selves, they embody a generation at a recent time in our American history, and they are just two human beings, who are born, die, live, love, get lost, get found.