tables to unknown gods

Kerith and her spouse Eli have escaped their religious cult in Philadelphia and moved to a new city thousands of miles from their former community and its jealous god whose will dictated their every move. As Kerith works to disentangle her psyche from the old god, the veneer of the cult’s uniform belief system begins to fade, raising jarring questions about Kerith’s sexuality.

In the cult, queer love was a recipe for literal consumption in the fires of hell at the whim of an all-powerful deity who found queer bodies unsavory. Outside of it, Kerith begins to imagine a world where a good meal isn’t defined by the narrow palate of a divine host who hates queers, but by the symbiosis of the diners, whether that’s two, three, or more.

But Kerith remains tightlipped about her queer fantasies, afraid they will drive Eli away. Eli, too, keeps his desires close to his chest, still mired in the cult’s conviction that self-sacrifice is the highest form of love. 

A visit from an old Bible college friend disrupts the cycle of hidden hunger as Kerith and the friend bond together over food and cooking, compelling Eli and Kerith to confront disparate memories of their shared history. Together, the trio of ex-cultists must reckon with the cult’s influence on who and how they love, and ask: What gods have they been feeding? And what gods have been feeding them?