Yuqing Lai

Love is the most touching theme. I chose the most emotionally intense moment: the reunion after the reluctant separation.From a queer perspective, it always carries a tragic tone. Through this love reunion full of the struggles about reality, I aim to strip away the temporal and spatial standards of emotions, staying in the most pure poetic moments of two people gazing at each other, gently caressing, and kissing.

In my conversations with my transgender friends, they often go through a stage after undergoing gender reassignment surgery where they ask themselves, "What kind of man should I be?" Hormone therapy makes their appearance more masculine, fulfilling a past goal. However, they are now faced with a new problem: "How do I reconcile with my own femininity?" Even though we have different identities, the feelings of helplessness and sadness that arise from the conflict between self and love are universal. This film shows society's concept of gender in love relationships.