In her search for her biological father, an Amerasian piano prodigy comes to California's redwood forests to an area populated by Vietnam veterans unable to reintegrate into society.
Jeremy Gerard of Variety noted that the original stage play was a "spookily amorphous affair", and that it included an "edgy, funny performance by Debra Monk." Of the television film, Gerard called it a "ponderous, cliche-riddled adaptation", with a performance by Monk that suffered in her character having her "spirit drained". Conversely, Gerard commended director John Korty in his drawing "a nicely restrained performance out of John Lithgow".[4]Ken Tucker of Entertainment Weekly wrote that the film "is full of fortune-cookie verbiage".[3] Tom Jicha of the Sun-Sentinel praised the performances of the cast, but criticized the story, calling it "lethargic" and "two hours of talking heads on uninteresting or unlikable bodies".[2]