It is the year 1 B.C. and New York City is a place to behold: vast, dangerous, seductive, and strange. It is a place where a museum guard inscribes a secret message into the streets of Manhattan; a troubled Queens schoolgirl becomes a powerful superhero; and an Alphabet City sculptor constructs his ideal woman from 88 rubber bands, a tattered umbrella, and the bones of a fish. In Shakar’s re-imagining of Ovid’s Metamorphoses, the street odysseys of these and other characters amount to passionate struggles for belonging and survival in the city which nurtures, alienates, and mystifies them all.