This story contains quiet bits of magic. It holds layers of vulnerability, pain, gentle wonder, warmth, and power. It carries an LGBTQ narrative often overlooked--it’s not about marriage, it’s not about a simple kind of love. It is about the beginnings: the realisation as a child that so many ways of connecting and building exist. It is about that spark and strength that comes with the realisation of a relationship big and untaught."

Later THE SHIP WE BUILT, inspired by the director's own coming out journey as trans and more, was developed into a young reader's novel published by Penguin Random House in 2020.