Downed Hearts

Ten days after an air-sea disaster, an island fisherman struggles to recover from the aftermath of his participation in the rescue-turned-recovery operation of a downed jetliner. Aaron's mental fragility is compounded by his wife's recent decision to take their twelve-year-old special needs son to live off-island so that he will get better schooling. Aaron, determined to regain his equilibrium, boards his small boat and heads out to where he feels most at peace, on the ocean. When he returns to shore hours later with a young mute woman, the question foremost in everyone's mind is, "Who is she?" But more concerning to Aaron's mother is whether Aaron might really believe he has found a lone survivor. Downed Hearts is a play that delves into the possibility that healing sometimes comes to us in mysterious ways.