Set during the 1960s in Singapore when Bugis Street was the centre for drag clubs and transvestite prostitution. The story centres on Lian a young 16-year-old from Malacca who gets a job as a recep-tionist at the Sin-Sin Hotel. It's the home of a gaggle of drag queens all of whom have stories of broken hearts and drunken sailors. Lian learns more about life lipstick and eyeliner than most—mainly from Drago a Paris-based drag queen back in town to look after her ailing mother.