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An Afrofuturist, a naked fetishist, and a community activist walk into a barbershop… Black American visual artist Devan Shimoyama, Australian fetish barber/porn producer Richard Savvy, and transgender Canadian barber Jessie Anderson are three queer men reimagining the traditional barbershop and restyling masculinity along the way.

Through the budding love between Orlando and Rosalind, disguised as a man, directors Chen Hung-i and Muni Wei tackle the era of Shakespeare when all roles were played by men and women were banned from the stage. By turning binarity on its head, they turn it into a colorful, energetic, musical ride that follows our lovebirds through a Taipei neighborhood, out of time and out of the Internet, between fairy-tale settings, magical encounters, riddles, kidnappings and family quarrels.