Lucien Haug

"Everyone always acts like all you have to do is work hard enough and then you can achieve anything you want ... Dream Big. Pff. Did my parents just not dream big enough then, or what? And my grandparents?"
Sixteen-year-old Sam doesn't want to finish high school. She wants to do an apprenticeship so she can financially support her mother and little brother as soon as possible. She doesn't want to give a speech at graduation, certainly not on such a silly theme as "Dream Big." What she really dreams of, she doesn't know - and she doesn't want to know, because her dreams are stubborn and have a way of always getting in her way: People and things Sam touches in her dreams become real when she wakes up. Sam dreams her report cards, which have only bad grades on them, so she doesn't have to ask herself any more questions about her future. She dreams her father, who has left the family. She dreams about Ezra, who she has a crush on, but also about a beautiful classmate named Sex Dream. She dreams of speeches she could give, finally speaking her mind, and a mess of balloons and garlands. (Announcement Burgtheater)