His heart is a bird in a cage that flies away

Middle-aged gay life partners, Armand Goldman, a Jewish drag club owner, and Albert, the club's flamboyant star attraction, live in the eclectic community of South Beach and have raised a straight son. Now, their newly engaged son, 20-year-old Val, wants to bring his fiancée, Barbara, and her ultraconservative parents home to meet his family for the first time. By Val's request, Armand pretends to be straight, not Jewish and attempts to hide his relationship with Albert, in order to please Barbara's father, controversial right-wing Republican Sen. Kevin Keeley.

Story of the man with Tourette syndrome, the life that's been stopped from the minute he was born and the choice he took to make it grow like he sees it's growth.

Birds fly back and forth between their caged lives and a different, perhaps imagined world. "On Saturday he took me to the bird shop. I remember the walls, lined with cages, all packed with bright, colored birds. They captivated me.” A song for a caged bird, revisiting childhood fascinations.

A bird tries to escape its cage.

A depressed bird seems to escape from his dreary existence in a cage.

A Bird spies the pain of the world, silenced by the sphere in which it confines itself. Fruit of freedom's essence, but without possession of it, the pair of wings takes comfort in the shadows that dance between the cycle of life. After a tempting debate with his own reflection, the bird conquers the skies, judging himself free at last. But would that freedom be free? Or an even bigger cage?

A public toilet cleaner dreams of a bird seen in a cage at the exhibition. She lives a modest, austere life and saves money obsessively. On the day of the purchase, she takes the bird outside in a box and sets it free.