Martina Marciante paints in black and white an intimate portrait of the Sicilian performer Caso-x, allowing the complexity of the queer scene she traverses to shine through; beneath and within the surface, simmer the insolutes of a universe in perpetual transformation like drag.
There is a store in Palermo unlike any other called Quir, a place of love defying any convention. The owners are Massimo and Gino, who have been together for forty-two years, perhaps the longest-lasting gay couple in Italy. Their small leather goods store has become an important meeting place of the local LGBTQI+ scene – here people chat about their love stories or seek advice – fighting for acceptance in Sicily, a stronghold of patriarchal culture.