"It's Boston, 1917, and at a pub frequented by New England Conservatory students, the sensitive, searching Lionel Worthing ( Paul Mescal) meets David White ( Josh O'Connor ) when he hears the boisterous young man play the folk song Across the Rocky Mountain on piano. Having established an immediate and personal intimacy, the pair sleep together, but soon David is drafted in the First World War and Lionel returns to his family's Kentucky farm."
"I think it's a perfect screenplay. It was just immediate. I want this film to be made tomorrow. This is what I probably learned, that films don't get made overnight. I was like, 'OK, I'm in, next week we're shooting. It's all gonna happen.'"
Lionel Worthing (Paul Mescal) and David White (Josh O'Connor) form an immediate, intimate connection after recognizing the same song in Boston in 1917. Their relationship pauses when David is drafted to the First World War and Lionel returns to his family's Kentucky farm. After the war, David invites Lionel on a song-collecting expedition across rural Maine to record and archive folk songs on wax cylinders. The film portrays the men as comfortable and romantically expressive with one another, using music and recording as a shared language. Paul Mescal became deeply invested in the project after reading Ben Shattuck's script during filming of Carmen and advocated for its production.
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