MeAfter his release from prison on drug charges, Dean Sanders (Mike Trippiedi) returns to his hometown of Tolono, a tiny Midwestern farming community in central Illinois. While struggling to find work, he organizes an AA meeting in the basement of the Baptist church, a meeting that attracts an odd mix of people, with varying backgrounds and addictions. Among them are Joyce Woodcock (Kay Holley), a fifty-year-old self-described drunk, who's contemplating suicide, after a humiliating end to her thirty year marriage; Red Merrel (Gary Ambler) a long-haul truck driver, who has an out-of-control sexual addiction; and Natalie Darnell (Colleen Klein) a young stripper from an abusive background. Welcome To Tolono shows the struggles of real people with real problems, trying to help themselves in a small town where anonymity is impossible, and the hypocrisy of organized religion is unforgivable. As their lives intersect, friendships and alliances are formed, and tragedy is the glue that ultimately bonds them.