A young woman works as an exotic dancer in a bar. The customers?hats remind her of a man she knew as a child. The man had entered her bedroom, turned back the sheets, and laid his hands on her body. The woman, conscious of having been abused body and soul, draws the audience into the shadows of a wounded childhood. The woman can never forget and the hat becomes her obsession. The Hat strikes hard with its stark, sometimes crude, imagery of a memory that refuses to go away.