Ramin is a young gay man in his 30s who fled the repression in Iran and arrived to Veracruz after traveling clandestinely on a boat from Turkey. While coping with the distance that he has taken with his loved ones, he begins to discover a freer life here, far from Iran.

The desire for personal liberation freed from prejudices and financial precarity poetically anchors this engrossing debut from Iranian-born director Bani Khoshnoudi. Vibrantly multicultural, the Mexican port town of Vera Cruz is at once a bustling haven and a hub of loneliness for the displaced.