This is the ninth play in the cycle of plays chronicling the black American experience in each decade of the 20th Century and is set in 1904, becoming the first play, chronologically, in Mr Wilson’s odyssey through the century. “Gem...” introduces Citizen Barlow, a man in spiritual turmoil who arrives at the house of Aunt Esther in Pittsburgh’s Hill District. When he claims sanctuary from the local constable, he puts into motion a series of events which lead to startling discoveries and set him on a course where duty leads to redemption.