A black little comedy on the nature of love, war and parenting in a family of obsessive compulsives.


All Nancy Nestor ever wanted to be was the perfect wife and mother. But she is at her wits' end trying to talk her teenage genius son out of the bathroom. It's been three months now that Hal's locked himself in as he works on a mathematical equation that involves watching the cheerleader next-door bounce on a trampoline.

As the story opens, Hal is nominated class valedictorian. Nancy's desperate to have Hal give the speech. Hal's desperate to have Nancy give him his brand new computer to work on his equations in the bathroom. The more Nancy becomes determined to lure him out with the computer, the more Hal becomes entrenched and refuses to give the speech. This means war!