Two couples thrash out their differences after their nine-year-old sons are seen kissing at school. The straight pair, Sarah and Matt (Amy McAllister and Philip Correia), pretend to be open-minded but imply the son of the lesbian couple, Amira and Chloe (Seyan Sarvan and Eleanor Wyld), must have initiated it. “You realise you are essentially accusing our child of being some kind of sex pest?” Amira shoots back.
With this first showdown, Zak Zarafshan’s debut seems set to follow in the tradition of explosive family satires with parents coming to blows over their kids (from Yasmina Reza’s play God of Carnage to Christos Tsiolkas’s novel The Slap). But The Boys Are Kissing takes a wacky turn and introduces supernatural forces in the form of two gay angels (Shane Convery and Kishore Walker) who exist on their own Mount Olympus, of sorts, looking down on these mortals and meddling mischievously in their lives.
