James baldwin room5/30/2023 ![]() We are in France in the 1950s where, unlike in the United States, homosexuality is legal even though the social stigma persists. ![]() The same need that will take him to Paris years later, where he will meet Giovanni. He also recounts his first experience with a man during his teenage years, with his friend Joey, and his subsequent need to deny it and flee. From then on, David will take us to the past and tell us what it was like growing up in Brooklyn with his father, a good-natured although detached man, and his aunt, who moves in with them after the death of David’s mother when he was five years old. ![]() The main character, David, is in front of a window at a house in the South of France along with his girlfriend Hella, thinking about the past few months in Paris, the night before “the most terrible morning” of his life. ![]()
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