#poverty

A young "sissy" white boy in the Chicago projects enters a degrading arrangement with a trans woman gang leader in exchange for protection.

A teenage boy relocates with his mother to a new city, wrestling with uncertainty about his identity and sexuality as he anticipates starting over at a new school.

A disabled drug dealer in a seedy trailer park gets drawn into blackmailing desperate, neglected wives into sexual favors as payment.

A young adolescent boy recounts his early sexual experiences with his mother and others during his teenage years.

A foreign man arrives in the Philippines and pursues sexual encounters with local women and young men.

An HIV-positive Irish girl is sent by her doctor to work as a prostitute in England to avoid infecting Catholic men back home.

An impoverished Indian child widow accepts a live-in maid position abroad with an older man, facing cultural barriers and her own insecurities.