IN DEVELOPMENT. In the predawn hours of a storm-soaked spring morning in rural Wisconsin, 1919, a guarded dairy farmer named Charles discovers a wounded drifter inside his farmhouse. As Charles tends to Floyd’s reopened war injury while his wife, Mabel, sleeps upstairs, the two men share a fragile intimacy born of exhaustion, loneliness, and the dangerous relief of being seen. But when morning light begins to expose what the night has allowed, the connection threatens the careful life Charles and Mabel have built in a community that measures who belongs and what makes a man. As suspicion rises with the sun, husband and wife must decide whether truth or survival will define their marriage—and how far they are willing to go to protect it. THEN COMES DAWN is a three-actor American tragedy about repression, complicity, and what it costs to remain safe.

TW: death, war injury, homophobia, infertility