In the slums of Paris, Smail, a 30-year-old Arab drifter, is picked up by Carmet, an aging transvestite. Carmet, who lives in a trailer with Klein, a senile old man who also cross dresses, tells fortunes for a living by day and turns tricks in Parisian streets by night. He is getting too
old for the prostitution business, so he intends to make Smail his protege. Smail, who is living in France illegally, protests, but his desperate situation forces him to accept Carmet's offer. Smail's first customer is Delpy, a closet homosexual who has an anonymous tryst with Smail in a
restaurant bathroom. At first Smail is filled with revulsion, but he eventually moves into Carm...
Released:
1987
Rated:
NR
Length:
98 mins