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A somber short video about a young, handsome Mennonite boy who, as the movie progresses, we discover is gay. He tries to escape the Mennonite "colony" and receives some help in his attempted escape: a kindly child-care worker, and the father of a beautiful Mexican boy. As it turns out the Mexican boy is also gay and spends the night with the Mennonite boy. However, the Mennonite boy wanders from the hotel where he is staying and is captured by the members of the Mennonite colony, who take him back and hang him upside down from a tree. Sadly, the child-care worker arrives at Noon at the hotel to take the boy to a safe place but, alas, the colony has already captured him and taken him back.

The enigmatic part of the story is that the Mexican boy with whom he spent the night comes to find him and hugs and caresses him as he's hanging from the tree upside down, but (and here is the enigmatic part), just leaves him hanging upside down from the tree -- probably because his father warned him not to give in to the "new ways." Pretty depressing ending to a rather lugubrious video. Incidentally, the movie is based on a true story so I wonder what happened to the Mennonite boy?

My interpretation was that at the end the young Mennonite dreamed of the young Bolivian coming to him as he was hanging from the tree. It was not that he was left there by the other young man. He just dreamed it.

Earlier, when that young Bolivian is speaking to his father, the older man recounts helping the young Mennonite try and escape and that he was beaten and taken back to their community by their members. The older man tells his son about those who do not change with the times and that he expected his son to more than he his and those in that community. That is why he works so hard to get him an education. To me, it sounded like he would have or already knows and accepted his son as being gay.