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He encounters his past and present in an erotic journey of self-discovery
An Iranian-American transgender man returns to the LGBTQ+ archives to understand his sexuality. This is a documentary about homosexual transsexuals from female to male and female to male. It deals mainly with life after transition, with little emphasis on the transition process itself.
There are two main categories of subjects
It is also intended for people with a male physical orientation. One is Lou Sullivan, a transgender activist from F to M, who was also a pioneer of gay identity. This is evidenced by several fragments of an interview he gave on television and the writings of one of his correspondents.
It is a drama wrapped in a narrative
Another is a series of interviews with various transgender people of different appearances and anatomy, with one of the interviewees insisting on keeping his vagina. They often have difficulty finding intimate partners, although Trans Night in gay bathhouses helps a lot because they do not have to explain themselves. A transgender Iranian-American (who left Iran shortly after the revolution) goes to a queer archive in Chicago to do research and befriends a younger, boyish trans worker.
The Iranian perspective is reinforced by a debate about the Iranian “omelet”; a dish
This hybrid approach added interest and made it feel more than the dryness of a straightforward documentary. I saw it as part of a film festival with the actors and director. The director mentioned that an Iranian actor had helped put together a short “proof of concept”; he asked for funding and continued to add Iranian details to the script.