Ryan, a stagehand hoping to dodge a life of mediocrity, orchestrates a Houdini-like escape act while cleaning an elephant’s cage offstage during a spellbinding performance. The trick goes awry, blowing him off his feet. He awakens in a derelict train station on the banks of the RIVER OFFORGETTING. It is pockmarked withcrevasses – each a window into thediverse imaginations of SIX MILLENNIALS. Like Ryan, they are seeking to evade lives of failure and self-loathing. Yearning for tenderness, Ryan slips through the thresholds of their defenses a11d dances among their fantasies. Navigating dreams of enduring love, heroic strength, fame and immortality, he learns their ways offorgetting. As their longings and anxieties entwine he is forced towrestle with his most closeted desires and deepest fears.
