Conversion therapy meets slow-burn chemistry in this forbidden love story
A sex and drug addicted young man who is forced into a Christian-run ministry in an attempt to cure him of his "gay affliction", where instead he is faced with the truth in his heart and spirit.
Acting
Chad Allen's trembling restraint breaks your heart
Direction
Cary lets silences scream louder than sermons
Writing
Dialogue that never preaches, only wounds
Director
Robert Cary
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Chad Allen came out publicly in 2001 and was one of the first openly gay actors to lead a film about conversion therapy.
Released before widespread awareness of conversion therapy's harms, it helped shift queer cinema from tragedy-as-punishment to survival narratives.
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