First Light

A literary, mythic queer love story of grief, healing and forbidden desire set in Joseon-era Korea.

As war closes in on Kiyun's isolated farm, he leaves his front door open and waits for the inevitable.

But what crosses his threshold one cold autumn night is not an army. It is one of the war's wounded: a silent, fevered stranger dressed like a warrior, with a sword at his side. He should be a threat. Yet his wounds have left him unable to survive without Kiyun's care.

While tending to him, Kiy...