A queer cinema with the twist of a coming-of-age film? Or a coming-of-age film with the twist of queer cinema? With college looming ahead, relations between childhood friends Jonathan, Shane, and Carrie, undergo subtle changes. While Jonathan comes to realize his love for Shane and starts distancing himself from Carrie, Shane realizes his love for Carrie. Carrie, in turn, is aware of both their feelings and becomes increasingly agitated. Director Leste Chen traces the emotional difficulties that teenagers experience as they form their sexual identities. Rather than focusing on the origin or context of these difficulties, however, he focuses on the altogether different value of "true friendship". It constitutes another lens through which to interpret the emotional difficulties that teenagers experience during the period of their sexual awakening. In other words, Chen departs from the usual perspective of viewing physical intimacy as constituting the only solution to the problem of sexual identity. This is precisely the reason that Carrie needs to be present when Jonathan and Shane reaffirm their friendship. By understanding the true nature of their friendship, she also manages to reestablish her own friendship with the men. For these reasons, we can view this film as both a coming-of-age film and queer cinema. (Kim Ji-seok)