Trespass

Toby and Salome are madly in love. But like many modern couples, their pasts and the stories of their families' lives are worlds apart. Exotic, mysterious and sometimes brooding, Salome was brought to America as a young child. Her father, a Croat, barely escaped the wrath of the Serbs who burned their village the day they ran. Salome's mother never made it out - or so Salome thinks. Her father now mans an oyster boat in Louisiana, barely scraping by. The parents of all-American Toby, on the other hand, are upper middle-class academics living in the suburbs of New York. For Toby's mother, Salome's brusque, unpolished manner is impossible to accept. Salome's foreignness, which Toby finds attractive and mysterious, his mother finds uncomfortable and even haunting. But the truth about Salome's past is more horrifying than any of them could possibly image and the secrets left behind in Yugoslavia turn out to be the tie that binds them together.