Sophie Deraspe's fascinating, frequently infuriating documentary is a prime example of Why We Can't Have Nice Things. The world loves a scrappy underdog, and few were more scrappy and lovable than Amina Arraf, an openly queer woman in Syria whose blog A Gay Girl in Damascus was already a cause célèbre before she was kidnapped in 2011, which is where things got hazy, because nobody could find proof that she actually existed. That's because she did not: Amina was the invention of a white American named Tom. Ugh.
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