There isn’t much talk about religion in Lloyd Suh’s The Heart Sellers—playing at Studio Theatre through Nov. 2—but there is faith in spades: that a frozen turkey will still cook through, that one job may soon turn into a better one, that a woman and her husband will someday have enough money to buy tickets to Disneyland, and that a new life built here will be happier than the one left behind. It is Thanksgiving in 1973, after all, and though Watergate rages on, the American dream is (presumably) alive and well.

But these dreamers are not American, at least not yet. Luna (Francesca Fernandez), a recent immigrant from the Philippines, is spending the day alone while her husband works; since he’s an immigrant too, his supervisors assume missing the holiday wouldn’t mean much to him, or to he

See Full Page