Director Laurence Stragio and performers Rosa Voto, Rosanna Morales and Irine Vela pack a punch from the moment you walk through the door. You, the audience member, form part of the community of mourners carrying salt for a deceased woman. The woman represents the mother tongue of the island of Sicily, Italy.

The use of salt in the play has a historical significance originating from one of Sicily’s islands Mozia, where the oldest salt mine in the world remains in existence. Salt, for Sicily, was used in rituals, as a food preserver, a preventative to the bubonic plague and as a commodity exported to nearby countries.