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Water by the Spoonful

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Synopsis

Somewhere in Philadelphia, Elliot has returned from Iraq and is struggling to find his place in the world. Somewhere in a chat room, recovering addicts keep each other alive, hour by hour, day by day. The boundaries of family and community are stretched across continents and cyberspace as birth families splinter and online families collide. WATER BY THE SPOONFUL is a heartfelt meditation on lives on the brink of redemption.

Character Breakdown

Elliot Ortiz (Iraq War veteran, Puerto Rican, 24)
Yazmin Ortiz (Elliot's cousin, Puerto Rican, 29)
Haikumom aka Odessa Ortiz (Puerto Rican, 39)
Fountainhead aka John (White, 40)
Chutes and Ladders (African American, 56)
Orangutan (Japanese, 31, F)
A Ghost (also plays a professor and a policeman)