Boadicea: the Vessel of Freedom (2018)

In 2006, two women sailed half the planet to be together. Meg, a Canadian, and I -- Elena, a Russian -- had no choice but to risk it all, or be parted forever. I had never seen the ocean. Meg had only day-sailed in protected waters, but took on this planet-crossing escape, without question. As an ordinary, well-to-do westerner, what she did was unthinkable; risked everything: social status, her savings, her life. To be with Meg, I lost everyone I had ever known, my home, my profession and my country. From meeting Meg online in 2005, until literally washing up on Canada's Pacific coast in 2007, I fought for life of my own, the right to be myself, and the right to love a person - not a gender, but a person. In April 2007 Meg and I reached the Pacific coast of Canada. We survived the ordeal, we have been together until this day and we keep sharing our story with the world.