Filmmaker Statement

This film is in two parts because it serves two purposes. It gives voice to Fofo, a woman of another age, from a secluded part of the world. It allows her to briefly become the focal point of an international audience and communicate her unique story with people that she would never have the chance to do so otherwise. But the film also gives voice to the boy that I once was, providing a safe haven for an important question to be answered without ever actually being verbally addressed. 'Would you still love me?' may sound more like the question that a child would ask, rather than someone comfortable with his sexuality and living as an openly gay person, as I came to be. Being unable to come out to a woman I consider a second mother could be seen as cowardly or overdramatic for anyone accustomed to the progressive evolution of Western societies. However, the generation gap is huge. Greek society's attitudes towards homosexuality have always been influenced by traditional values and