"I can't say anything else, better, deeper, more radical, more political and less political than to be kind to each other and nobody to screw anybody. Really. We just can't afford it."
Vay Blanka had to answer one short, decisive question before Christmas 2015, but his whole life depended on it. Two lives to be exact. An old one and a new one. The answer, however, washed away the old one like a flood. My Cage is the story of this answer. Why a thirty-six-year-old married man decides to give up his comfortable, privileged social status and identify further as a woman and choose himself and life instead.
And at the same time, this book tells about a lot of things: about women, men, masculine women and feminine men, family, true friends, partners in destiny, loneliness, giving up, failures and perseverance, the realization and fulfillment of dreams, the transformation of the body and getting to know a new one, the looks of men , about women's smiles, trousers and tights with pockets, first dances and first dates, the intimacy of a hug, and all the while he talks a lot about gender roles, social expectations, politics, rights, Berlin, the island peak of Kisorosz and Hungary today. These are stories that are familiar even without being known.
My Cage is an honest, brave, ruthless and funny book about self-discovery, acceptance and rebirth, about the fact that we all want to live happily.