Act I “Keep your cheap flowers off me!” The woman in the white designer suit screamed so loudly that pedestrians on the sidewalk turned to stare. At her feet, a seventy-year-old flower seller…

Act I “Stay down and let someone useful work.” The words echoed through the laundromat as a seventy-year-old woman lay on the cold tile floor, struggling to catch her breath. Above her, a…

Act I “Serve from the floor if you are that slow.” The words had barely left the wealthy woman’s mouth when she kicked the elderly baker hard enough to send her crashing onto…

Act I “I am sorry. Let me count it again.” The elderly woman hurried to gather the coins scattered across the wooden vegetable stand, her fingers trembling as a line of customers watched….

Act I “I only wanted to buy the scarf.” The elderly woman’s voice was barely louder than the soft rustle of silk beneath her fingers. Standing beside the glass display counter, she held…

Act I The man bent down as if he were about to make a donation. Instead, he stole from the blind old man sitting on the church steps. His expensive camel coat barely…

Act I “I heard that.” The old man’s voice trembled beneath the bus shelter as a stranger’s fingers slipped into his small plastic food container and stole the few crumpled bills inside. Rain…

Act I The wealthy woman stole the money because she thought the old woman would never know. Outside the glittering entrance of one of America’s most exclusive shopping malls, a seventy-six-year-old homeless woman…