When a draft dodger becomes the new roommate of a traumatized Vietnam veteran, their bitter ideological standoff—mediated by a nurse whose family survived the war’s aftermath—builds to a crisis that forces all three to confront the legacies they carry.
Cold Eggs is a darkly comic three-character drama set in a Pennsylvania assisted-living facility, where the unfinished business of the Vietnam War resurfaces in...
When a draft dodger becomes the new roommate of a traumatized Vietnam veteran, their bitter ideological standoff—mediated by a nurse whose family survived the war’s aftermath—builds to a crisis that forces all three to confront the legacies they carry.
Cold Eggs is a darkly comic three-character drama set in a Pennsylvania assisted-living facility, where the unfinished business of the Vietnam War resurfaces in an unlikely confrontation.
Frank Miller, a Black Vietnam veteran haunted by nightmares and fiercely devoted to his battered American flag, wants only solitude.
His fragile routine is disrupted when Eli Mellon, a jittery, talkative draft dodger who fled to Canada in the 1960s, becomes his new roommate.
Mediating between them is Mai Hung, a Vietnamese-American nurse whose family history of war and displacement gives her a deeply personal stake in their conflict.
As Frank and Eli clash over patriotism, guilt, and responsibility, their arguments expose decades of unresolved trauma and resentment. Mai pushes both men to confront their pasts, revealing how the same war shaped them in radically different ways—through combat, exile, and inherited memory. A medical crisis forces the three into an uneasy reckoning, where anger gives way to fragile understanding. By turns tense and unexpectedly funny, Cold Eggs explores how history lives on in the body, how identity is forged by war, and how connection can emerge even from decades of division.
