Elijah Bennedict Brown

La Maison de Lumiere Elijah Bennedict Brown

La Maison de Lumiere tells the story of the Lumiere family moving to the small, narrow minded town of Apple Heights Pennsylvania to open a New Age shop. Because the Lumieres are a bi-racial couple with twin, teenage children (a damaged, homosexual son, and a precocious, meditative daughter), they encounter considerable resistance from the bigoted atmosphere of the town. This comes most notably from James Christian Senior, a racist history teacher at the local high school where Morgan (matriarch of the Lumiere clan) has just gotten a job as the new science teacher. Little known to James Senior, his prized teenage son, James Junior, has been a closet Buddhist for most of his young life, and has been plotting an escape to a monastery under the pretense of going to college. As James Junior becomes intrigued by the Lumiere children ? first spiritually, then romantically ? events unfold that threaten to undo both families.