Food and Shelter

Reduced to living in his car, an unemployed factory worker wins a small lottery prize and treats his family to a day at Disneyland

They hide in the park to spend a night in the Swiss family Robinson tree house. In the morning, frustration turns to violence when Earl cannot even afford an ice cream for his little girl

Though charges are dropped, Earl can no longer cope and he leaves his family

Mother and child struggle to survive

And when Earl eventually returns having found a job, he finds his desperate wife has lost the ability to trust and to hope

REVIEWS

"Powerful" ~ San Francisco Examiner Chronicle

"Heart wrenching .... Jane Anderson relentlessly presses her point that nothing like the events on stage should be happening in such a wealthy country" ~ Variety