The play is set in a family of women which is dominated by its grandmother, who has the powers of a Voodoo priestess.
There are no male figures in the play, which is aching with loss and unfulfilled love. The fate of the family's men is an enigma that is revealed shockingly and late in the play.
Unlike most of Judi Ann Mason's work, this play does not buffer its themes of loss and love with comedy; rather, it channels them, Greek tragedy-style, into the mystery of the "mock" -- a curse which is passed down through the women of the family.
