Four interwoven stories about love and self-acceptance: An eleven year-old boy struggles to keep secret the attraction he feels towards his male cousin. Two former childhood friends reunite and start a relationship that gets complicated due to one of them’s fear of getting caught. A gay long lasting relationship is in jeopardy when a third man comes along. An old family man is obsessed with a young male prostitute and tries to raise the money to afford the experience.
Acting
The child actor's silent longing will wreck you.
Writing
Four stories, zero easy answers, all heart.
Cinematography
Moonlit Mexico City never looked this lonely.
Director
Sergio Tovar Velarde
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Tovar Velarde made this for $200K after his first feature failed — it's basically Mexican queer cinema's secret origin story.
The four ages of man structure mirrors the Aztec belief in life's four houses — childhood, youth, adulthood, and old age.
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