In 1955, inspired by a televised automobile advertisement,
twelve-year-old Sara Hellerud and her twin sister Susie took up dancing.
Like the pair of huckstering ballerinas who sailed over the Buick, they
vaulted over milk cans and barbed wire. The TV dancers had provided an
irresistible contrast to the workaday world of their family's dairy farm
in Polk County, Wisconsin. This and other fantasies shared by the twins
enabled them to dance through a tense childhood and adolescence. From
the vantage of middle-age, Sara recalls her early years with pride and
humor. She also explores the process through which the twins unraveled
their symbiotic, almost merged, identity to become independent young
women eager to investigate the wider world.