Gone

A police woman . Her son, working in Vienna, is missing. Her efforts for have explanations from Austrian police and authorities about her boy fate. And humiliations, silences, dark secrets, hypothesis, help from some friends and the years passing. It is more than the portrait of a case but a powerful image of similar situations. For few reasons, a gay story/ manifesto. For others - image of corruption. In essence, only the cry of a mother. And her desperated fight.

The constant tears from the mother served as a horrible distraction from what I believe was the purpose. This poor mother was slighted and misrepresented. Producers and directors owe her an apology. I found this completely unacceptable. Shame on you.

I absolutely have no doubt that the police were involved. They knew he was Mr.Gay Austria without being told,they lied about everything from beginning to end. Either one or more followed him into the bathhouse,or they saw him on street and did away with him quietly..the fisherman that supposedly heard him scream was them hearing him scream as they tossed him into the water or when they were beating him unconscious. Why this story hasn't been resolved is beyond me.Why gay groups are not helping more and getting these cops indicted as well as the owner of the Sauna is the real story. Corruption breeds Deception. But brute force could help refreshing some of their memories I'm sure.

Recommended...Very emotional doc...I really felt for the mother...really felt her pain...

I hope you one day find out what happened to your son..and you are able to bring him home...and put your mind and heart at ease...

He sounded like an extraordinary human being...Thank you for sharing your story...

These parents raise their children and tell them "you can be anything you want to be". Never teaching them the realities of life. The parents soke their own lives in immortality and confuse these growing teenage minds with "religious fortitude" and the pressure to live up to being "accepted" by God, yet hypocrites to their own pressures. Thus confusing the heck out of these boys and girls. These kids become young adults confused about life. Many times abused .. and mom is oblivious to the abuse. Sex, drugs and being utterly lost about life and God in their mid-teens.. these kids then venture out into life often rushing into the riskiest lifestyles .. and this is when mom adopts that moniker "not my son" and "I have to let him be who he wants to be" yet deep inside saying "if I tell him no, I am gonna loose him" ..only making the situation worse. Take all of this and then allowing a young man like this to go to a foreign country ..and you have the story of Aeryn Gillern.

His disappearance is "the end" result of a lost soul. One look at the guy and you see a smiling face, but underneath it all a young man crying out for understanding in a lost/confused life.