Nikita Kochnev

17-year-old Renal is brought to a sex worker by his uncle to prove his masculinity to his patriarchal father.

A night with a troubled stranger forces a young male sex worker to confront a haunting moment from his past that he thought he'd left behind.

An anxious brother delays telling his sister the truth about his upcoming wedding, an uncle takes drastic measures to "make a man" out of his closeted nephew, and a young man reflects on his turbulent teen years and the experiences that pushed him to leave his hometown behind. A powerful collection of shorts about the quiet ways in which we learn to stand up to prejudice and doubt.