Her childhood home had 53 miles of books and one very real dragon in the basement.
A little girl lives in a custodian apartment inside a New York Public Library, where her father stokes its coal furnace 24/7. Decades later, actor Sharon Washington chooses the theater to write her modern-day fairytale filled with real and imagined dragons, family secrets, forgiveness, and a world of books.
Acting
Washington's stage presence transforms pain into poetry.
Direction
Theater-to-film translation that honors both mediums.
Writing
Dragon metaphor that earns every ounce of its weight.
Director
Chuck Schultz
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Sharon Washington's father was one of the last live-in custodians at NYPL; the program ended in 1987.
The film quietly documents a vanished working-class New York—when public institutions literally housed the families who maintained them.
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