Silas has come home to die, only, he has not chosen his family but Warren and Mary's farm. As Frost so poignantly puts it 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.' In this musical adaptation of Robert Frost's The Death of the Hired Man, the flutist navigates Warren and Mary's farm under a full moon "filling down the west, dragging the whole sky with it to the hills." There is an openness, a somberness a sense of something pending as the performer assumes the role of Silas finding and baling hay- the one activity Silas can base his self esteem upon. Ultimately, the flutist joins a few of Silas' crony friends in a Largo homage to the dead man and brings him through the gates to rest.