Doris Wishman was a less famous director than Ida Lupino, but also a very prolific professional in years when, for a woman, it was not easy to be. Pragmatic and determined, when she could not find money to direct one of her legendary B-movies, she dedicated herself with the same application and the same disenchantment to selling dedicated objects in a sex shop. Wishman's story is little known that needed to be told, also because it helps to understand how sex and gender have a variable geometry, often for reasons very different from those we imagine.
Zoe, for example, another figure we meet on these pages, has lived as a man for sixty-two years and decides to face the male-to-female transition very late. She is driven by a legitimate, subtle, and very strong desire: to see at least a stretch of life that had always been told to coincide with the one she lives.
