On a scorching summer night at a Riverside, California motel, Archie, a queer Black man reaching the ends of several ropes, upends his life (yet again) to save his half-brother Nick from the rock bottom of a cross-county bender. As the heat rises and painful memories of their shared past begin to surface, the brothers recall an imaginary world they’d created together as children, and meet other motel residents with troubled pasts and imaginary worlds of their own. Drama and comedy blend with pirate tales, alien adventures and fantasy creatures in We Are the Forgotten Beasts, a fantastical tale about fathers and brothers, trauma, childhood and the imagination.