Luk was in his final year of highschool when I asked if I could make a film about him. As his sister, I’ve watched him grow up, but always from the distance a family member inevitably has. COVID hit when he was twelve, so he spent most of his first years of highschool (and of puberty) in his bedroom, behind a computer screen. In the two years before we started filming, though, he had built a tight-knit group of friends, and with them he was going through the transitions that, in one way or another, we have all lived through.

As a woman, watching these boys figure out who they are from that close felt like a rare privilege, and something I wanted to capture.

Now, almost three years later, the film feels like a time capsule. It is a sensitive portrait, not only of a boy searching for his identity, but also of a moment in time: 2024, a generation growing up with social media, navigating a shifting gender culture, just before AI became part of everything.