Sixteen-year-old Murat is a Berliner, Turkish and gay. And he's hungry for experience. In Murat's family, big brother Osman calls the shots. He believes men who love other men are a disgrace. Murat secretly cruises in parks at night and becomes submerged in an enigmatic subculture of Turkish rent boys and transvestites. He adores the dimly-lit bars, the hip-hop music blaring out of old BMWs and life on the streets of Berlin, where there are no rules. For a short time he is happy, until fate intervenes. Murat meets Lola - a Turkish singer in transvestite show and the star of his milieu. Lola is surrounded by a coterie of admirers - rent boys, transvestite performers and her lover Bilidikid. Lola and Murat become friends, but then a secret is unearthed, revealing family truths that shatter Murat's world. He emerges at last to find a way of living his life without deception.