Neicy

In an Arkansas women's prison bathroom with her mother, girlchild Neicy scratches on the cold tile floor as activity in the adjacent stall establishes the emphatic sexuality that permeates her life. A successful actress in her forties, she is pretty, smart, caring, and committed to social justice, but still sexually self-destructive and confused about love and intimacy. When her promising Broadway career collapses, she plunges into a dark night of the soul. What is the value of worldly achievement measured against true self-worth? How does magnificent physical connection become conscious and lasting human union? Neicy's pain is tempered by friendships, faith, humor and grace. Everything edges to a riotous climax when she travels on a "transform or die" mission to her wise, dapper stepfather's seventy-ninth birthday party. Thoughtful, infused with spirituality, and inventive about how unconscious material seeps into everyday life, NEICY compels us to examine difficult sexual issues -- promiscuity, repression, abuse, powerlessness, and fear -- and points the way to enlightened sexual celebration.