When Hosanna, resplendent as Elizabeth Taylor in "Cleopatra", is humiliated by his erstwhile friends at a local drag show, a night of anger and self-discovery begins. After a wounding argument with his leather-clad lover, Cuirette, Hosanna is left alone to face, for the first time, the contradictions of his own life. When Cuirette returns, Hosanna rejects the illusions of his fantasy world in favour of a real life, simply lived.

« HOSANNA : I said what do you know about whores? Did you ever get close enough to smell one? / CUIRETTE : Big Pauline-de-Joliette smelled like that. I dumped her, remember? Never went near her again. She made me want to puke. / HOSANNA : Poor baby. She must have cried her eyes out for a whole thirty seconds. By the way, what was her real name? Wasn't it Paul? »

"What is interesting about this play, apart from the adroitness of its construction, is the quality of its writing, which reveals real wit and insight." Clive Barnes, The New York Times, October 15, 1974.