Rainer Werner Fassbinder regular Volker Spengler here takes his star turn as a transgender woman beset by doubts about her sex-change operation—only the most profound in a lifetime of futile gestures toward love. Humiliated by strangers and abandoned by her lover, Elvira née Erwin is befriended by a sweet-natured streetwalker (Ingrid Caven), and together they revisit the people and places of Elvira’s previous life. This tour of the past imperceptibly turns into a tour of the last days of Elvira’s life, becoming increasingly bizarre with the sad hilarity only dreams provoke.