it's the story of two men played by andrew scott and paul mescal.s out against a ghost story of sorts in which one of the men, adam, gets to meet his long deceased parents, played by claire foy and jamie bell. our boys back home? our son. it would be wrong to think of this as a gay film. there's much going on in this picture. look at you. you were just a boy, but now you're not. i wanted it to be about love, i suppose, and about parental love and about romantic love. how those things are connected, intertwined with each other. i wanted it to be about the things that we keep inside — the pain, the trauma, the agony of our youth sometimes that we don't know what to do with and how to deal with it. and the film in many ways is about adam, the main character, digging back into his past as a way to be able to move forward, i suppose. it was a long time ago. i don't think that matters. what do you hope people more than anything else take away from your film? there's a lot of complexity involved in love, and i want them to take that away with them and ask