Orlanda is a person between male and female. Their profession is diseuse, a performer who entertains with songs and speeches in the German tradition of the 20’s and 30’s. To escape from loneliness, as well as to play with taboos, Orlanda decides to marry their friend Elizabeth. On a concert tour in Warsaw, which also serves as a honeymoon, both the newlyweds fall in love with a young Polish man.

Orlanda, an androgynous performer, decides that marriage to a deep voiced woman and their subsequent affair with a charming Polish man is better than loneliness.