A prying journalism student interviews a world-wearied drag queen about her life and career.

In a hospital waiting room, family wounds are exposed as a mother and son wait for news of their loved one's prognosis.

Upon the loss of his mother, an Egyptian teenager leaves his home of Cairo to live with his father in Toronto. Parachuted into the underground queer nightlife in Toronto, he confronts his mother's death, much to his father's disapproval, by taking up the ways of drag and becoming Queen Tut.