, Vienna-based director of Taiwanese origins CB Yi addresses a series of socially relevant topics, focussing on a trio of male prostitutes in Taipei. We talked to him about the inspiration for the film, screening in Cannes' Un Certain Regard, and his artistic approach. Cineuropa: How did the project begin? CB Yi: I started working on the idea around eight years ago. Back then, I got to know young actors from Beijng who were training in Austria. One of them told me that he earned money to pay for his motherâs healthcare by sleeping with men. That impressed me very much. This was the starting point for the film. In Taiwan there are a lot of young people who leave their rural home to go to the city. Often they work in the construction business and are very poorly paid. Others prostitute themselves. The Confucian upbringing forces people to sacrifice themselves for the sake of the family. I wanted to talk about this and raise the question of what we live for exactly.