Eight-year-old Zachary has, so far, enjoyed life as his father's favourite son, as the possessor of a gift for healing and as younger sibling to a tearaway, a jock and a bookworm, but this relatively idyllic childhood in Québec is cast under the shadow of his dad's suspicions when he is discovered wearing a dress. Seven years on it's 1975 and Zac is in thrall to Ziggy Stardust and his cousin's boyfriend, a confusing situation for him, made more complicated by a history of trying to satisfy his d find out more...

The Terence Davies Trilogy acts, as do his two later films, ‘Distant Voices, Still Lives' and ‘The Long Day Closes', as a reconstruction of his childhood and youth in working class post-war Liverpool. In his trilogy Davies uses alter ego Robert Tucker, a shy and introverted child who is assumed to be not as able mentally as his peers and so bullied by those around him. Robert's home life is darkly overshadowed by his violent abusive father and his guilt over homosexual feeling, which is exacerba find out more...