Kurzbeschreibung
“Who was that boy, really, and why was he willing to go off with a guy he had met barely two hours before?” Eduardo, the hero of this story, wonders, after embarking on a strange relationship with a young man he had just met in the street. “Maybe he’s running away from somebody? If not that, why is he in such a hurry to leave? OK, sometimes you can improvise a friendship with strangers (who has not struck up a conversation with a stranger in a bar or at a bus stop?), sometimes you can be having a bad day, one of those days when you’re feeling lonely, sad, and bored and if, besides, you’re broke and somebody offers to buy you a drink, you’re not going to say no. But, is that what happened? Was our meeting caused by accident? Something inside me tells me that Tino could harm me very much, but sometimes you have to take a risk. Life was not always going to be routine and safety. There could also be an unexpected adventure just around the corner … “ Love story, psychodrama with shades of dirty realism, A Distant Beach surprises us, trapping us from the first moment in the magic of its web, by its honesty, its emotive strength, and its vision, never complacent, of certain aspects of homosexual relationships.
