In the Land of Dreams is the story of a man who believes he is being
stalked by the ghost of an ancestor, who, for reasons unknown, has
returned to lower Manhattan, where he owned a tavern in the 1680s.
Eventually the ghostly stalker is taken into the city-sponsored
residential program in which our narrator lives, and reveals himself to
be his troubled ancestor. He tells a story of violent and irrevocable
events that caused a curse to be placed on their family. Both men are
looking for redemption, the ancestor through confessing his role in the
long-ago troubles and the narrator by finding the right way to interpret
these shocking events...