What would you do if you knew your life's potential?
As Deerfield, Louisiana, prepares for its bicentennial celebration, the entire town is abuzz. This is a place where everyone knows everyone, including Douglas Hubbard, the high school history teacher, and his wife, Cherilyn, long known as Deerfield's happy and content golden couple. That is, until a strange new machine appears at the local grocery store and suddenly rockets them in different trajectories. Resembling a simple photo booth, the DNAMIX machine promises to reveal, with a quick swab of DNA, what a person is truly meant to be in life. The surprising results upend the Hubbards' sense of self, along with the rest of Deerfield, and soon many of former teachers, nurses, and shopkeepers abruptly change course to pursue new destinies as magicians, cowboys, and athletes. With humor, heart, and a boundless sense of wonder, The Big Door Prize sparkles with keen observations on fate, free will, and loyalty, asking us what it might truly mean to take a second chance on ourselves.
As Deerfield, Louisiana, prepares for its bicentennial celebration, the entire town is abuzz. This is a place where everyone knows everyone, including Douglas Hubbard, the high school history teacher, and his wife, Cherilyn, long known as Deerfield's happy and content golden couple. That is, until a strange new machine appears at the local grocery store and suddenly rockets them in different trajectories. Resembling a simple photo booth, the DNAMIX machine promises to reveal, with a quick swab of DNA, what a person is truly meant to be in life. The surprising results upend the Hubbards' sense of self, along with the rest of Deerfield, and soon many of former teachers, nurses, and shopkeepers abruptly change course to pursue new destinies as magicians, cowboys, and athletes. With humor, heart, and a boundless sense of wonder, The Big Door Prize sparkles with keen observations on fate, free will, and loyalty, asking us what it might truly mean to take a second chance on ourselves.
