Some years ago, I got to know a truck driver named Nikos while hitch hiking in Greece. Nikos told me about his time in the military, during which he met Christos, a man he was still secretly in love with despite not having seen him in fifteen years. His story touched me deeply and over the years, it has evolved into a story that is perhaps more about me than the real Nikos.
Part of what has moved me in the process of reimagining this story is the way that love and violence collide in the protagonists’ lives – indivisible – yet dependent upon each other. They got protected and persecuted by their own personas, inevitably driven towards repression and isolation. My desire with this film is to create a moment, suspended in time for them alone – a moment, however complex, of liberation.