Sam (17, German-Ghanaian) and his mother Rita are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their old friend Gifty and her son Kwesi (19, Ghanaian). When Kwesi enters Sam’s life, the two begin to fall in love with each other and Sam begins to question his identity. Their growing connection is threatened by Kwesi’s lack of residency status. Gifty seeks help from Sam’s mother but time is running out and Rita’s efforts cannot prevent the worst.

The writer and filmmaker Abdellah Taïa writes a letter to his gay nephew, Brahim, to help him getting out of fear, to support him, to walk beside him. To love him strongly.

Manting, a Chinese woman in her early 60s, reconnects with the lesbian lover from her adolescence when one of her old classmates passes away. After classmates’ reunion event in a karaoke bar, they spend a night together, roaming in the city.

Film created from the Polish Educational Archive materials, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems.

Father, son, his beloved, heat, summer, night. A small male world, unusually tender and vulnerable, like the whole life of migrants in big cities.

In addition to the difficult conditions of life and work, sometimes there is another context that remains in the shadows: love must be hidden. Especially when it comes to queer love.