When a surprising message from an old friend interrupts Neptune’s daily work-flow, it cracks open stories from their past that they’ve never been able to finish. If We Be Friends moves between the present day and the early aughts, back when the teenage best friends Neptune and Phoebe found freedom in art and partying in a special forest facing imminent threat. When the pair begin rehearsing scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream, their palpable creative intimacy quickly spirals into a state of disruption and transformation. Through zine-making, self-invention and Shakespeare, If We Be Friends is a tenacious queer coming-of-age story about authenticity, resistance and the cost that comes with being known.