Two women, each marked by loss and linked together by a strange twist of fate, journey to an ancient city—a storied city without borders—in search of answers and escape. But what they discover there will change their lives in ways neither of them could expect.
Two actors (Eboni Booth and Mary Cavett) play more than thirty characters on this wild ride through a city of doubles, monastic cheese, octogenarian vocalists, dizzying bureaucracy, ancient graves, and lives more expansive and singular and wondrous than found even in myths and legends.
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In the finale of The City in the City in the City, Tess and Laura confront the mysterious old woman who’s been following them their whole journey. Secrets will be revealed, and they will each have to make a choice.
After retrieving the package, Tess and Laura journey deeper into the city in search of answers. What they discover at its center will change the course of their mission.
Laura returns to the bar in search of connection, and Tess learns more about just who it is she’s traveling with. The two hatch a plan to retrieve the package.
Tess and Laura land in Mastavia and begin their mission, but Tess encounters a problem. The two of them go out on the town, and find that this city may be far more mysterious and complex than they imagined.
Tess is supposed to go to the ancient city-state of Mastavia with her mother to retrieve a package left by Tess’s estranged father. Laura finds herself estranged from everyone she knows. A simple Craigslist ad brings them together.