This is a 10-minute comedy/drama play for 2 female actors, age around 10-20 years old, set in 1943. While her father is in a POW Camp during WWII, the young Ruby has been charged with leading her apartment building’s rooftop victory garden back in White Plains, NY. Her older sister, Millie, carrying weighty responsibilities of her own, has been searching for Ruby tonight and finally finds her on the rooftop. While Millie tries to convince Ruby to come inside to bed, Ruby discovers some of her vegetables are dying, and fears this is a harbinger of bad news for her father and the war.

*This play is a stand-alone 10-minute play or is also found in the collection of short plays called The Victory Garden Plays.