When Aleksa is four years old, she is referred by a brusque hand to the group of guys at the preschool. Aleksa, who is then considered a boy, prefers to be with the girls.
At home, there is a caring mother who is trying to understand why Aleksa wants to dress in a princess dress, and a heavy-minded father who worries that the son is gay.
But there is also grandma who gives Aleksa a video cassette with drag artist Christer Lindarw on it. A cassette that Aleksa will watch again and again.
The Gay Girl is a story about what it feels like when one's appearance does not match how it feels inside, about a search in a society full of prejudices about what it means to be a woman, a man, a gay, a girl, or a trans.
