I guess it just sounded like something that would speak to me. The movie opens up to silence, zoomed in quite close to a very severe, very pale man’s face. After about 30 seconds, he starts singing, and the camera pans out to show the man standing on an immense stage in a large theater. As the opera goes on, a very bored looking teen, the main character, is seen with his parents, both equally as severe as the man singing on stage. As the movie continues, you see that the main character, a boy named Dominik, is just a normal teenage boy trying to get through high school. He goes to a party with friends, where he is dared to kiss one of the other boys in the group. After he does, he realizes that he has romantic feelings towards the friend he kissed. When his school finds out, they humiliate him with homophobic slurs both in school and online, driving him into a deep depression. I related to Dominik on so many levels, seeing as I had to listen to my family speak ill of any queer person they knew, and had to pretend to agree with them in fear of being found out. This had been eating away at me since eighth grade, but somehow this movie gave me some relief. Maybe it was seeing that other people were going through the same kind of pain I was that made the pain more