Grind takes place in Chicago in 1933, a time when the stages of America's Vaudeville houses were a cornucopia of comedy, song, and dance spiced with bumps and grinds. Backstage, however, the jokes fall flat against the brick wall of black-and-white, separate-but-equal burlesque life. Grind is about spectacle, extravaganza, phenomenon, pageantry, human emotions, human conflicts, and ultimately, about the triumph of the human spirit. It tells the powerful story of the performers who slave at a theater to bring light and laughter to a bleak, Depression-weary city. -- Cover.