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WHO AM I? Where is home?

 

  

After losing her memory, identity, love and home,                                she lost all hope.

.....until she lost her slippery glasses 

and found her name was Hope


 


A fairy tale romance between mystery and lunacy....

            ..like Cinderella meets Hitchcock 

                On the Way to the Forum.




Yet its story has a deeper meaning.

Have you ever '

  • seen your hometown vanish in an airplane window, 
  • said "goodbye" to family, 
  • or watched you loved ones slip away into busy lives?

Then Slippery Specs may find the way to your heart-and help your heart find its way home. 


It's a poignant story about what "home" really means






It's about a nearsighted 17-year-old girl who escapes into movies to forget the home she once had with her mother.  She meets an undocumented boy who hides with a family of ghosts and dreams of a home he never knew.       

As their stories merge, Slippery Specs becomes 

a timely tale of immigration wrapped around a timeless, universal story about our longing

for belonging and home. 




 

 

 

 

  

The Story

After a desperate bid for freedom with an undocumented street performer, a nearsighted teen betrothed to the mob loses her memory in a blast. 



She's dropped into 

a bizarre musical dreamworld 

with only a shopaholic ghost mother and an overcaffeinated wrestling partner 

to help.



Discover Beyond the Border

 Now, she must find her identity and home 

before the mob finds her, immigration takes her love, and their dream of a home is lost forever.   

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