"On the steps of New York's city hall, five aging Mothers sit in silent protest. They are the guardians of the vogue ball community: queer men who opened their hearts and homes to countless lost Children, providing safe spaces for them to explore their true selves. Through epochs of city nightlife, from draconian to liberal, the Children have been going missing, their absences ignored by the authorities. In a final act of dissent the Mothers have come to pray: to expose their personal struggle beneath our age of protest and to commemorate their loss until justice is served. Watching from city hall's windows is city clerk Teddy. Raised by the Mothers, he is now charged with brokering an uneasy truce."--