Off to preach in church

(an unexpected plot twist in the story of my life)

When I was imprisoned in boarding school and forced to live as a boy, one of my strategies for survival was to imagine myself the hero of a book.

And later, when I became aware of the power of the movies, to imagine myself the hero of a film.

The film would be unusual in that it would be shot entirely from the point of view of the protagonist.

Just as the …