But when he is 22, he is sent to a typical communist re-education summer camp, to learn about peasant, farming life, riding with his schoolfriend Karolina. As a teen, Ludwik has a fleeting sexual experience. But Beniek did not fit in either, for different reasons, and one day he mysteriously disappears. Ludwik, living in New York City, looks back at a life that is still young, remembers his first crush, on an older, more developed boy, one he came close to kissing, and certainly loved. A time when being gay was a criminal offense. A period when the old regime was beginning to crumble. Tomasz Jedrowski - image from Interview Magazine And the longer we wait, the more painful and uncertain it will be.This is a stunning work of surpassing beauty! Sooner or later we are forced to confront their darkness. …we can never run with our lies indefinitely.
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