| Though born as men, Mikael and Orlando both change their sex to become women. Now well into their 60s, the two meet for the first time to talk about their lives and the one defining regret they both share, their sexual reassignment. Mikael underwent surgery in the mid-90s as a 50 year-old, while Orlando was one of the very first sex change patients in Sweden in 1967. Mikael now dresses as a man again wearing over-sized clothing to hide his breasts, and desperately tries to convince his doctors to change him back. Orlando is an androgynous dandy, dressed in a red velvet suit, donning a single diamond earring. He enjoys living as both: sometimes man, sometimes woman. Young director Marcus Lindeen tells this story through only the two men’s dialogue recorded in a film studio. |
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