When Einar Wegener poses as Lili for his artist wife Gerda he becomes so comfortable in her character that he discovers his true nature and together they go through the emotional and agonising process to undergo the very first sex-change operation in history so that he can truly become Lily.

No need for names. The inciting incident is the change in his view of himself, a complex situation but one that could still be described with more economy.

After an artist’s husband realises he is a transgender, he and his wife must fight emotional and psychological hurdles amidst early 20th century?bigotry in order to have the first ever sex change operation.