阿历克斯(Inés Efron 饰)生来就是个雌雄同体的异类,他同时拥有男性和女性的性征,不过一直被父母当成女孩来抚养,他和父母一起住在一个远离城市的海边小镇。随着阿历克斯的渐渐长大,母亲想让他切除掉阴茎,成为一个完完全全的女孩。于是,她没有和丈夫商量,就请来了外科医生一家到家里做客,希望说服阿历克斯接受手术。外科医生的小儿子阿尔瓦罗(Martín Piroyansky 饰)是一个同性恋,他和阿历克斯首次见面时,阿历克斯就邀请他和自己做爱。阿尔瓦罗开始时虽然拒绝了,但随后还是跟着阿历克斯跑进了海边的小木屋,随后,阿尔瓦罗发现了阿历克斯的秘密……In a small coastal town of fishermen in Uruguay, the biologist Kraken works and lives in a house at the sea side with his wife Suli and their aggressive fifteen year-old daughter Alex. When Suli welcomes her former best friend Erika that comes with her husband, the surgeon Ramiro and their teenage son Alvaro to spend a couple of days with her family, Kraken learns that his wife invited Ramiro to operate Alex. Meanwhile Alex and Alvaro feel attracted by each other; however, Alvaro finds that Alex is hermaphrodite and she finds that Alvaro is gay. But the troubled and outcast Alex has the right to choose what gender she wants for her.