A Secret, Many Kids, A Party, A Dead Body, Silence, Voices, Laughs, And Games. A Boy Asks His Parents For Permission To Dress As A Woman.
In the small Mexican coastal village of El Roblito, 16-year-old Ñoño lives what seems to be an idyllic existence with his loving family. But he holds a secret. Defying gender norms, Ñoño works up the courage to tell his family he wants to live his life as a woman, a fraught decision in a country shrouded in machismo and transphobia.