by Emma Jeszke Somewhere off the freeway in the desolate Midwest, Berdie and Nora pour coffee in a truck stop diner. 16 years old, scrappy and petulant--Berdie plays a lethal game of survival of the fittest by doing what she thinks is necessary in order to, one day, escape her circumstances. Nora, older and supposedly wiser, focuses her displaced energy into Berdie--attempting to steer her away from a perilous path of promiscuity. Caught in the lonely space between wanting and denial of that want, WORKING IN RESTAURANTS delves into a world of emotionally imprisoned characters fighting for a getaway.