The films in this programme sketch a dystopian world (for whom?) where men take on the roles of women and women take on the roles of men, they celebrate the permeability of gender in the Wild West and they deal with the dangers and pleasures of the big city, with cross-dressing repeatedly providing countless opportunities for accidental same-sex attraction. The films play with the rapid changes in ideas about gender and sexuality taking place during this period, and deal with confusing rituals, masquerades and mistaken identities when joining a bizarre fraternity, or a future when "men are like women" and "women are like men".