A love story between two men — that was always the premise. But barred from filming it in his home country, the director was forced to reinvent it elsewhere, in another geography, with a different protagonist. The celebrated fusion of reality and fiction. Cinema as an act of discovery — and love.
Prevented from making the film he had once envisioned, a director recreates it in another country, under entirely new circumstances. The care required by this transformation leads both creator and new actor to question how the story can unfold and what paths it might take. Through a reflective-meta lens, viewers are invited to envision the scenes that were only ever written on the page, weighing the possibilities of the version that never existed against the one that now comes to life. Amid all the changes, one simple gesture seems to be the heart of the story: a kiss shared between two men. (Pedro Gonçalves Ribeiro)
