A wish often arrives with the grin of a lawyer, and its prize is a shard of ancient stone. It begins on a dockside warehouse, under the harsh glare of sodium lights. A crane screeches, a crate shatters, and a fire opal—a prison—skitters across the concrete. As Alexandra Amberson, played with a painfully real anxiety by Tammy Lauren, lifts the gem, she is watched. Andrew Divoff, inhabiting the h...
