A documentary by gay director Riyad Vinci Wadia about the life of India's most famous transsexual Aida Banaji. Using both real and mock interviews and dramatic reconstructions set in the post-colonial, urban culture of Bombay, the film traces the sometimes traumatic progress of the self proclaimed 'Venus with a penis' through family and medical crisis and many surgical interventions to help her become the pure and beautiful other worldly creature of her fantasy - a mermaid.