Dena Twinem

Tearing Down the Walls Dena Twinem

Prisons. They come in all sizes. The size of a town. A small mountain community in southwest Colorado is suddenly host to a prison of sorts in 1942. What was a large open space in their picturesque valley between the peaks is now rows and rows of plain gray walls-housing units for interned Japanese Americans. The size of a family. Four generations of one family face trials of all kinds. Can they pull together to defeat the shackles that threaten them? Can their home that was once a place of heartache and pain become a place of restoration and freedom?