In Gardel’s debut, an old man named Raimundo recalls his forbidden teenage romance with his best friend, Cicero. Gardel told Asymptote Journal, “Raimundo has a lot in common with me: like him, I grew up in a nonurban area until I was 17, and I’m gay — but we are also different. I was able to go to school from a very young age, while he could not, and I never suffered the violence that he did. So there is a kind of closeness, but also distance, between me and Raimundo.”
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