Synopsis
A documentary in four chapters on the life of Brett Shapiro, Jew, writer, homosexual. Each chapter alternates Shapiro's life with interventions by artists, intellectuals and psychologists on four different themes: identity, the origin of writing, normality, non-traditional families.
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