Chronicle of the San Francisco gay men's choir tour of the southern United States. An act of affirmation against the rampant homophobia of the Trump era that confronts members of the choir with fears and wounds of the past.
"There is a storm and we must learn to dance with it." Before the resurgence of religious-based laws curbing the rights of the LGBTIQ + community in the southern US, the San Francisco Gay Men's Choir decides to take action. This documentary accompanies them on their 25-concert weeklong tour through auditoriums and churches in Mississippi, Tennessee, Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina, five states of the "Bible Belt" where evangelical Christianity has deep social roots. With the complicity of the Oakland Inter-Confessional Gospel Choir and a repertoire composed of religious songs, this voyage to the same communities that turned their backs on choir members when they came out of the closet. reconnects them with their roots and confronts them with their own fears and prejudices. The unique stories of several of them embody situations all too familiar to many LGTBIQ + people: family rejection, professional marginalization, bullying, expulsion from their religious communities. This film of grim tidings and great sociological importance, raises monumental questions: What position should the church take before the tour? Can it be perceived as paternal or condescending that a group of liberal gays from the north head south to give unsolicited support to the LGTBI communities of the "deep south"? Can the redeeming power of music unite even the most disparate paths, if there is good will?