Youth is like waves hitting the shores – the dramatic nature of it all. The common perspective on homosexuality is that gay and lesbians only know how to chase present moments of love, lacking the ideology of long term goals. It is thought that by the time they reach middle age, their concept of love in life becomes lost and by the time they hit old age, they’ll be stuck alone in misery. This perspective may only be a very cold perspective. In fact, gay people or gay couples have to face many different problems dealing with family pressure and social acceptance, amongst many other obstacles. They grow old just like everyone else and have to deal with the same struggles everyone else does.

In Drifting Flowers, Director Zero Chou uses black humour to portray six different gay and lesbian individuals and their struggles with life. A 97 minute film of three different storylines of love and fate for the third installment of the “rainbow” series. This film hopes that the current youth generation can reflect on life and the purpose it serves; the power to unite and help each other out in times of need.

The first story involves a complicated love triangle that sees Jing, a blind musician, falling in love with tomboy band mate, Diego. Her unawareness that her younger sister is also infatuated with Diego causes their close relationship to fall apart.

The second story involves “pretend” married couple, Lily and Yen. We see them when they’ve reached their old age and we come to learn that Lily has been struck with Alzheimer’s disease. When Yen comes to visit and tells her he has been diagnosed with HIV and abandoned by his lover, the two renew their friendship and rediscover the meaning of life.

The last story is about Diego. We witness the struggle of a tomboy in her adolescence, facing the pressures of high school. She struggles with her body figure as her breasts start to grow. We also see the intervening story of her love life with Lily.

Drifting Flowers has been entered into numerous film festivals around the world including Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Berlin amongst many others.

Release Date: 23/4/2009