SARA: Her parents?
DADDY: They know nothing about you… She never told them. They lived in another state…
SARA: I want to meet my mother… who is she?… Are we alike? She must be something like me. I will never know unless I meet her… (Pause) Who is my father?
DADDY: I don’t know. His name is not on your birth certificate…
SARA: What’s my name?
DADDY: Your mother gave you her last name… O’Brian… But we gave you ours… Thompson…
SARA (musingly): O’Brian!… Sara… I’m Sara O’Brian…
DADDY(kindly): No!… You are still Sara Thompson!
(Daddy hugs Sara)
THE END
OLGA: 65. Michael’s daughter.
MICHAEL: 85 Olga’s blind father.
A hospital room. MICHAEL lies on a bed with an intravenous tree drip and oxygen tubes in his nose. He is barefoot.
OLGA walks in. She hugs and kisses MICHAEL, as best she can around his tubes.
OLGA. Papa! Oh, papa! I’m so relieved to see you!
MICHAEL (speaking carefully and slowly). Where am I?
OLGA. Memorial hospital…
MICHAEL. Why?
OLGA. You passed out. You fell, hit your head hard… We called the ambulance…How do you feel now, PAPA?
MICHAEL. You’ll not to believe me… I can see! I can see again!
OLGA. What do you see?
MICHAEL. Colors!
OLGA. Papa, you are in shock…
MICHAEL. I can see perfectly! No more white stick!
OLGA. The doctor told me that you have some problems with your mind and your heart
MICHAEL. Now I will be able to walk faster. I am normal! (pause) You don’t believe me?
OLGA. Papa, what you can see?
MICHAEL. I can read the Leningrad sign. It’s on the station platform. The trains are waiting… On the wall is the portrait of Brezhnev. My colleagues from the institute are all over there… They’re here to see me off… I’m going to Paris…
OLGA. To Paris?
MICHAEL. I’m presenting my paper on drawbridge construction…
OLGA. Papa, you’re, hallucinating!
MICHAEL. No! I am not… It’s real The French invited me to talk. I’ve told you how famous our bridges are… What is strange is that the Party Committee let me go… But I have to have a “Chaperone”… Dima… He is a Party Member
OLGA. Do you see me Papa?
MICHAEL. Well, how can I see you if you are standing in back me? (Suddenly,he raises up and extends his right hand) Hello… hello! Vasiley Ivanovich, I’m so pleased… Have you seen Dmitry my fellow traveler?
OLGA. Papa, the nurse told me, you shouldn’t sit up, even if you felt like it.. Just try to snooze a little…
MICHAEL (excitedly). I can’t sleep… I’m preparing for a business trip… (
