Best friends Gautam and Buddha are the cross-dressing stars of the New Conquerors, a bawdy, all-male traveling theater in rural India. While Buddha is openly gay, Gautam has a wife and a son back in the village. Set in a milieu far from the court battles that recently overturned India's anti-gay law, this feature-length documentary finds nuance, tolerance, and complexity in an unexpected corner of the world.
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