Strudel Sergeants

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Show Description

Presenting: Each Morning We Wake
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Featuring sound selections and arrangements as follows:

Prelude: Solace (Together) - Chad Lawson & Seth Parker Woods
I. 'Minarai' from The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Original Soundtrack - Yoko Kanno
II. our last dream - DPR CREAM
III. Slapocalypse - Charles Berthoud & Giacomo Turra
IV. Mado Kara Mieru - Christopher Tin
V. I Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin + Shukumei - OFFICIAL HIGE DANDISM
Postlude: End Theme of 'The Makanai' from The Makanai: Cooking for the Maiko House Original Soundtrack - Yoko Kanno

Following the lives of a pair of Asian-American youngsters circa., 1942 as they wake one day to find their communities pulled apart by force and then stitched back together within a sparse concentration camp in southern Colorado. Their innocence slowly stripped away by the harsh realities of racist government policies, they grow closer in their shared adversity and discover a terrifying truth: they have fallen in love.

They wake each day with purpose, surviving together in America, eventually being released from wrongful imprisonment. They defy norms and laws they believe to be wrong by choosing to live together after their shared experience during the war. The Civil Liberties Act of 1988 is eventually signed to provide meager reparations to former incarcerees, and the boys (now aged men) adopt a teen orphaned daughter whom they raise with care before they each pass away quietly, having lived their entire lives as 'outsiders' within their own country and communities.

Their grieving daughter, grown and married herself, adds a final promising observation to the story: her own teen daughter has just founded the first LGBTQ club at her local community center, making pride both a way of life and a theme of remembrance for her grandfather's sacrifices.