“Life of Silence’ is a somewhat harrowing film that tells the story of three gay men who are entangled in doomed romances.

Director Cheng-Ru Ying told The Huffington Post in a statement that he hopes viewers come away from the film with the understanding that intimate relationships should be based on happiness, rather than social and gender stereotypes.

“I hope that, through the artwork, society could inspect and think about many existed injustices, discriminations, oppressions and sufferings of gender and body that one day could be understood,” Ying said.

Watch a short trailer below and the full movie on Viddsee.