He is young, poor, black, and coming to terms with being gay, quietly and painfully wrestling with these identities. In 'Moonlight,' we watch Chiron growing up in the Liberty City neighborhood of Miami as the crack epidemic is taking hold in the 1980s. It's a life we don't often see portrayed in commercial films, a coming-of-age tale of love and anguish, a movie that's garnered critical acclaim for the story it tells and the beauty and power of its telling.
