Love Cake

Four years ago, Bryan Hicks left behind a lucrative corporate job to open a bakery with his trans girlfriend, Nadia Brooks. In conservative Houston, Texas, they had to sue a transphobic landlord just to lease a space. Even so, the shop was humming along until the Covid-19 pandemic slowed their business to a trickle. Cash-strapped and desperate, Bryan turns to an unsavory character for a loan; when he's unable to pay it back, he's forced to rent out the bakery to an illegal trans strip show ...