While working as the stage manager of a poorly-attended play about Abraham Lincoln, Taffeta interfaces with difficult people on both sides of the stage. After a particularly miserable performance, Taffeta plunges into their daydreams, crafting their own retelling of the Lincoln myth by inserting themself into the likely true love story between Abe – then just a young lawyer in Springfield, Illinois – and Elmer Ellsworth, a dashing young army sergeant. As Taffeta churns through every possible identity in search of connection and intimacy, they must question why they have chosen to tell a tale that may never have been for them in the first place – and how to finally live a life of their very own. Part chamber drama, part exorcism, Lavender Men presents a fundamentally queer story where theater, cinema, history, and memoir collide into one singular, breathtaking fantasia.