Milwaukee. Is it the name of a place? A person? Or the painful memory of a night to forget? It could be any of them. For Mary, it is the name of her father. For Annie, her mother, it is an anonymous American GI. For her grandmother, it is a place in Wisconsin and an opportunity for revenge. Each clings to her own illusions, and the result is an explosion of lies that fragments and destroys a family.
'Milwaukee' is Annie's story, which she tells from the hospice bed to her best friend Clemmie. It is a story told in spasms of memory, memory that cuts no corners but faces the whole truth. And her recollections are a plea for understanding and forgiveness. Only then can the wheel come full circle.
