Actress Janis Bergmann plays the part of Sherry. She’s going through her childhood collection of Barbie dolls as she reminisces about her life and the state of the world. Though Barbie dolls don’t always translate well into war trauma and she often comes off as preaching her own solution to the world’s problems, it also shows her desperately reaching for a more innocent time to help balance her post traumatic stress from 9/11, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the unsettling possibility that terrorism can strike any one of us.

“I think we are all aware in some peripheral way that there are unspeakable injustices happening but we don’t really want to focus on them,” said director Lois Grandi. As a Vietnam veteran, I remember being asked if all the people protesting that war bothered me? My answer was no. What had bothered me was all those people who had no opinion one way or the other. Apathy is what is really deadly. So I understand Sherry’s feelings when she asks: “When did we stop wanting to have a better world?”

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