In an unnamed city of the near future or past, Joshua has turned the salon where he once made women beautiful into a hospice for gay men dying of a mysterious contagion. As friends and lovers slowly succumb to the disease, which covers them in shimmering fish scales, Joshua does what he can to ease their final moments... and even finds beauty in the strange and melancholy world created by Mexican author Mario Bellatin, dazzlingly re-imagined by Quentin Zuttion.