In Search of Sara Ann

An official letter from the State of Israel marks a significant step forward in Gareth’s quest to track down his birth mother. Sadly, it comes two years too late for him to actually meet his American mother Sara, who gave birth to him three decades before in the sixties, as a free-loving, Gaia-worshipping college drop-out, during a discreet trip to Israel, returning home alone. She passed away from cancer two years before the paperwork enabling him to trace her was processed. But her spirit lives on in her rock-guitarist son and charismatic barmaid daughter—Gareth’s half-siblings, who are overjoyed to discover that he is trying to make contact with them, his niece, his uncles and his elderly grandmother. Follow Gareth—or David, as he becomes, preferring his middle name, which was the name Sara gave him—as he travels to Washington state to meet his new-found birth family in an emotional encounter in which Sara’s presence is felt as strongly as if she were still alive.