"Manzanita: Little Apples - Sarah's Story" Roberta Llewellyn Sometimes mystical, sometimes gut-retching, as if a m lange of cin ma v rit had been superimposed on a background of gritty photo-realism. This story is about Sarah living in Northern California over many decades. She reveals, through the angels who watch over her, and through the mirroring of movies she watched as a child in St. Helena, seeing her life in a montage of miscellany film loops. In looking back at those scenes, especially when growing up in Oakland during the black and white fifties into the Wizard of Oz technicolor sixties, she tells the story of her life. During the present decade, Sarah reluctantly returns to the Lost Coast, where her son, Noah, and his partner, Heidi, have been grieving over the loss of their young daughter who died unexpectedly. Sarah meets Michael there by chance and while uncovering who they may be for one another they become unwittingly over-shadowed by Shasta, a native American. The Indian insists that the land where Michael has built his home and also where he has been growing a cash-crop, must be returned to his ancestors. Finding beauty and meaning arising from her dissonant life experiences; Sarah lives within her imagination and the natural world around her. Seemingly, having lived many life times in one, still, she knows her core self, her main rhythm, and where to come home to. Growing-up in Oakland and Northern California, Roberta married young and had four children by the time she was twenty-four. She enjoyed in her earlier life making theater productions with elementary and middle-school-aged kids, especially at: Canyon Elementary school in Canyon, CA, Whitethorn Elementary school in Whitethorn, CA. and other children's venues, including: Quaker Friends First Day School in Berkeley, CA Some of the plays the children performed had been inspired from creation myths and stories of Maidu or Pomo Indian's. Pacifica KPFA Radio produ