Explaining Film on Instagram: "Moonlight (2016) is a critically acclaimed coming-of-age drama directed by Barry Jenkins, based on an unproduced play by Tarell Alvin McCraney. Structured in three acts—“Little,” “Chiron,” and “Black”—it chronicles the life of a young Black man named Chiron growing up in a rough Miami neighborhood, grappling with his sexual identity, bullying, absent father, drug-addicted mother, and search for connection and self-acceptance amid societal pressures of masculinity.