Many among Karachi’s transgender community scrape a living through dancing, singing and begging on the streets. Others earn money catering to the sexual needs of men in the city’s seedier districts. Hidden from the conservative mainstream, groups of outcast transsexuals have come together to create underground communities or ‘families’. This film follows three transgender individuals: Maggie is a prostitute with dreams of becoming an airhostess; while Chahat was abandoned by her family for her feminine ways; Sana is Karachi’s most sought-after transgender dancer, who wants to give up the profession after a gruesome gang rape.
Transgender citizens face much discrimination in education, employment and in terms of state protection. But there is some hope; the local tax office has advertised for transgenders to work as tax collectors. Can Sana get one of those jobs? Will Chahat ever escape her desperate poverty? And will Maggie fulfill her dream of flying away?
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