When Super Mom meets problem child – which one is really lost? As he nears his fifth birthday, Sam’s curious dreams of a seemingly lost child begin to intrude with quiet insidiousness upon his waking state. As Sam’s mother, Grace, watches with growing fear the disturbing changes taking place in her charming, spirited son – the fighting at school, the bed-wetting, the hot flares of defiance – she begins to search for what lies behind his nightmares, a search that will take her deeper and deeper into the sub-strata of love and bondage, buried beneath the surface of the family and into its molten heart. Cry Baby is a story about boyhood, about motherhood, about what binds families, the past to the present, about suffocation and deliverance. It is at once a stinging satirical slap across the face of barren suburban and a poignant hymn to the extraordinary beauty in ordinary lives