Informed by timely issues of immigration, capitalism, and justice, yet timeless in its themes of love, identity, and competing loyalties, The Dig, inspired by the Greek tragedy Antigone, portrays a woman at odds with her history, forced to choose between her own ambitions and her loyalty to her beloved, idealistic brother.
Antonia King has a complicated relationship with the past. She and her brother were found amid the rubble of a bombed-out apartment in Sarajevo and taken in by a family in Minnesota. To escape the constraints of her adopted town, Antonia embarks on a high-powered legal career. But before long, her brother’s mysterious disappearance pulls her back home. Over the course of one day, Antonia unearths decades of secrets and lies, leading to revelations that will alter the course of her life forever.
Anne Burt draws on her work experience for the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the education organization Facing History and Ourselves to bring her main characters, child survivors of the Bosnian genocide, to vivid life.