Rehearsals descend from collaborative to absurd as a group of idealistic actors — three black and three white — gather to tackle the challenge of theatrically presenting the little-known story of the first genocide of the 20th century: the extinction of the Herero tribe at the hands of their German colonizers. Armed only with boxes of letters from German soldiers they sent home to their wives and families, our characters navigate how to tell the history of this Genocide when the only record that remains is of the perpetrators’ story. If that was not enough of a challenge, they must also maneuver how to talk to each other about racism, genocide, and systemic oppression. Along the way, they test the limits of empathy as their own stories, subjectivities, assumptions, and prejudices catalyze their theatrical process. Ultimately the play takes a dark turn as the American wounds and the historical tragedy overlap within this ensemble’s process.