Based on the Shores’ play of the same name, “Sordid Lives” tells the story of a trash-talking, wacky family who gathers for their grandmother’s funeral. When their grandmother is found dead in a seedy hotel room next to a much younger man, her passing brings the small community together as the town's characters rehash their worthless lives one by one (including a man with wooden legs, a tattooed barfly, and a transvestite in an insane asylum).