After getting laid off from her job as a computer programmer in her fifties, Tair decided to visit her daughter Jane in Oakland. When she dropped into one of Jane's rehearsals for a fledgling clown show, she had no idea how that visit would change her life. In this episode, Jane shares how that visit unexpectedly turned into a critically acclaimed mother-daughter show, The Chinese Clown Cabaret, and the sides of her mother it helped reveal, changing their relationship forever.