Moms in America peeks at the raisons d'être of three generations of typical American men: an immigrant garment worker, a minor drunk intellectual/politico and a gay theater artist. They have come to Miami to dispose of the matriarch Helen's body and attempt to get along. Don't look for a happy ending. Time: Fall 1998. Place: Helen's apartment in a high rise senior residence in Miami. Characters: This is a character-driven ensemble work. Moms in America is a skillful exploration into the survival of the human spirit as embodied by these three men, and compelled by their relationships to the women in their lives. Pop, who survived the Cossacks, has come to Miami to fulfill his duty and provide his estranged wife with a proper Jewish burial. He wants to ensure that his only son will someday do the same for him. He would also like to get to know his only grandson. Pop is a man without a country, having lost the land and culture of his birth, and never trusted, understood or accepted his new world. He lives alone in the Bronx. Dad, who survived the 60s, has come to Miami because his father paid for the ticket. He wants to find closure in his relationship with his mother and spend some time with his illegitimate son. Dad is unmarried and currently unprotected by a woman. He makes his best effort to relate to his family. He lives alone in Greenwich Village. Son, who has survived HIV/AIDS so far, has come to Miami to get to know his father and grandfather a little better. He also wants to dash down to Key West to party on Halloween. Until now Son has tried to fulfill his need for family in the gay and theater communities of Greenwich Village. Although he crashed with Dad when he first moved to NYC, he now has his own small apartment in the Village. Themes: Each survivor wants desperately to experience unconditional love that, once finally experienced, will not then be stolen from him. Each is reluctant to offer unconditional love without an advance guarantee that it will be returned in kind. They relate indirectly to each other by dealing with the mothers in their lives who helped form them into who they are now. They do not identify in a secure manner even with their own sub-culture. Each has survived … so far …so what? Conflict: The exploration transcends inter-generational issues. They just cannot understand each other even though: each man speaks pretty good American English, each is thought to be socially liberal, they are family. Resolution: There is none.