Lavender Men, directed by Lovell Holder, is the kind of film that makes you question everything you thought you knew about Abraham Lincoln. Adapted from the critically acclaimed play developed by Roger Q. Mason and Lovell Holder, it explores an elaborate fantasia about the 16th President’s gay love affair.

Starring in the film are Roger Q. Mason, Pete Ploszek and Alex Esola.

Lavender Men will be released in select theaters nationwide on Friday, May 2 including New York, Los Angeles and DC, additional theaters to be announced.

Here is the synopsis: The lonely and frustrated Taffeta (they/them) is currently serving as the stage manager of an uninspiring play about the life of Abraham Lincoln. Moreover, Taffeta is recovering from a one-sided crush on the play’s director, which has compelled them to work around the clock trying to salvage the misbegotten production, from washing the cast’s dirty costumes to compiling extensive research on Lincoln all for the director’s approval. This would appear to be the story of Taffeta’s life: they are constantly looking for connection, romantic or otherwise, in all the wrong places.

After a particularly awful evening enduring the plights of both the badly-behaved performers and the narcissistic audience members, Taffeta finds themself alone in the empty theater, or so it seems. Taffeta’s tentative attempt at propositioning a cute audience member quickly goes south upon learning the guy’s already hooking up with one of the show’s actors in the dressing room. When the older actor playing Lincoln then emerges from the shadows not long after, things go from bad to worse. The man appears charming at first but then forces himself on Taffeta, who nonetheless manages to shove him off. In the wake of the rejected actor’s cutting insults on his way out, Taffeta plunges into their own mind, attempting to at last reclaim a story – any story – for themself.

What follows is an intricate fantasia in which Taffeta haunts the empty theater to recount Lincoln’s legacy via their own point of view: an unapologetically queer romp through the future President’s sexy secret love affair with his doomed legal clerk, Elmer Ellsworth in which Taffeta inserts themself into all the supporting roles, from an army cadet to a dancing chandelier to Mary Todd Lincoln herself. However, as the evening wanes on and reality intrudes, Taffeta must finally question why they are inserting themself into someone else’s story rather than telling and living their own.

Watch the official trailer for Lavender Men.