Synopsis
In 1941, Leo Kowal, a Slovak Nazi officer, was sent to a concentration camp for having sex with a male colleague. Through personal letters, Gestapo interrogations, digital reimaginations, and a parodic adaptation of an SS manual on persecuting gay men, a young gay filmmaker retraces Kowal’s story. Blending research with intimate reflection, he asks what it means to inherit such documents and face the shame surrounding gay sex. How to tell a story about a figure who was both criminal and victim?