Playwright Milan Dragicevich’s new work, “Refugee,” follows three generations. It’s part personal narrative that the UMass Amherst professor knew nothing about until his mother later in life started revealing her past as a displaced person in the Sinai in World War II.

Dragicevich said the play, which is a musical, is the kind of story he likes to tell: one that jumps in time and space. And that shows how related circumstances can be — even distant and unusual ones.

Click the audio player above to hear New Eng;and Public Radio’s interview with Milan Dradicevich.