The Race of the Ark Tattoo takes place inside a working flea market run by Mr. P. Foster, who is selling the artifacts of his deceased foster father, Mr. Homer Phinney. As the audience shops in the flea market, they discover that each object offers its own story, and Foster will tell us some of those stories.  Every night the performance is different, as the stories to be told that night – written down over the years and saved into Mr. Phinney’s “story ark” – will be determined by audiences’ selections of objects from Foster’s salvaged flea market.  As the evening unfolds, the flea market becomes, in effect, a mausoleum – a repository for the memories of Foster’s mysterious life; while the stories of its relics encode a desperate duel between ghosts for the truth of a memory.