In 2001, Li Ermao, a 20-year-old migrant worker, got a job as a drag queen in a nightclub. To make more money, he started to inject hormones and doing plastic surgery to change himself into a real woman. She desired a family and had found three husbands, but she was deceived many times in love and attempted suicide several times. After spending many years in the nightclub, Li Ermao gradually developed a drug and alcohol addiction, and the sex reassignment surgery she expected for many years failed and her life is became increasingly troubled. In 2011, Li Ermao was kicked out of her apartment and lived on the street. She had to sneak back to her Sichuan hometown empty-handed with her new boyfriend. After leaving her hometown at the age of thirteen, Li Ermao now has to face the judgmental villagers she left behind and also her family's farmland had been taken over by village officials.