Purity and sacrifice—the religious tenets of good motherhood—still course through representations of the maternal on-screen, just as they continue to weave their way through the dynamics of motherhood in reality, the political implications more fraught than ever.

Displacing the queer is not a new phenomenon. What has changed in recent years is the kind of displacement at work. Where once queerness existed on the fringes of society, under the cover of darkness, now it has been thrust into the sunlight, quite literally, through the use of remote natural settings.