Having dedicated her life to religious service Shelley runs a Bronx soup kitchen with unsentimental efficiency but lately her heart's not quite in it. Her brisk nature masks an unsettling fear that her efforts are meaningless. When Emma - an idealistic but confused college dropout - arrives to volunteer her reckless mix of generosity and self-involvement pushes Shelley to the breaking point. With keen humor and startling compassion Heidi Schreck's play navigates the mystery of faith the lim

Shelley spends her days running a soup kitchen in the Bronx, her sense of purpose inseparable from her religious faith, though both have begun to waver. Emma, a college dropout looking for direction, arrives at the kitchen hoping to find it there. She brings a needed jolt to the place, helping a long-time client toward a new job, but her energy also proves unsettling. Even as Emma s behavior grows steadily more erratic, Shelley still wants to believe in her, despite the mounting evidence that she shouldn t. Shelley must finally ask herself how well she really knows the people she sees every day, how much she can trust them, and what she can and cannot forgive."