Zuccotti Park

<p>In the fall of 2011 protestors gathered among the stone benches and neatly lined trees of an open plaza set between high-rise office towers in lower Manhattan. The Occupy Wall Street movement would make international headlines and the world soon learned that plaza's name-Zuccotti Park.</p><p> Frank Scala served as a police officer for twenty-three years but decides to retire after the death of his wife. As the protests heat up Frank sees a world changing before his eyes and struggles to hold on to the things he holds dear.</p><p> Though Jen Scala is mourning the loss of her mother she has found solace in a budding relationship with her classmate Jamal. Jen's world is expanding and she sees her father Frank as nothing but a painful reminder of the past. She wants to move forward and the Occupy Wall Street movement provides a perfect place to start.</p><p>  Frank and Jamal each discover that searching for Jen leads them to uncomfortable truths about themselves. As a large group of protestors gathers to march across the Brooklyn Bridge city officials scramble to keep order. A showdown is inevitable with Jen caught in the middle. What proves to be a pivotal moment in the Occupy Wall Street movement has the potential to be a turning point in their lives. <em>Zuccotti Park</em> is a moving story of ordinary New Yorkers caught up in social upheaval personal grief and the search for renewal.</p>