A pre-operative male-to-female transsexual takes an unexpected journey when she learns that she fathered a son, now a teenage runaway hustling on the streets of New York.
Southern Californian Bree Osbourne, formerly Stanley Chupak, has finally received the news for which she has been waiting: she has been approved for male-to-female sexual reassignment surgery. But before Margaret, her therapist, will allow her to go through with the surgery scheduled in a week's time, Bree has to deal with an unresolved problem from her past. Bree gets a telephone call from a seventeen year old man named Toby Wilkins, who is looking for Stanley, his biological father. Toby is in a New York jail, having been supporting himself by petty crime and hustling. Stanley/Bree knew nothing about Toby before the telephone call. Toby apparently is all alone in the world, with his mother having committed suicide and being estranged from his stepfather in Tennessee. Masquerading as a Christian social worker, Bree, not telling him either of her true identity or her transgender status...
Written by Huggo
Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers):
Bree's sister, half Jewish, misuses the Yiddish phrase "kin-ahora" when she hears about Toby's mother's suicide. The phrase means "may the evil eye be averted" and is roughly equivalent to "knock on wood". It is used when you say something GOOD, to avert a spell cast by a jealous person or a demon. It would NEVER be used with respect to something bad.
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Quotes
Toby:
You're gonna cut your dick off for Jesus? Bree Osbourne:
They don't "cut it off!" It just becomes an innie instead of an outtie. See more »
Crazy Credits
For all people of trans experience,
For all people of any experience,
and
For my family.
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"Silent Night"
Written by Franz Gruber (as Franz Xaver Gruber) and Joseph Mohr (Traditional) Performed by Tish Hinojosa Courtesy of Texas Music Group / Watermelon Records
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