In Juchitán and other Zapotec communities in Oaxaca, muxes occupy a recognized third gender: born male, raised and living as women, accepted within their families and towns as a normal part of indigenous social life. The film uses interviews with muxes themselves, along with their relatives and neighbors, to explain how the role fits into Zapotec culture, from childhood recognition to work as seamstresses, hairdressers, and homemakers who often care for aging parents. Community elders and residents describe the historical roots of the muxe identity, distinguishing it from Western categories of gay or transgender and framing it instead as a long-standing indigenous tradition predating colonial influence. Festivals and everyday scenes in Juchitán show muxes moving through public life without the stigma common elsewhere in Mexico. The documentary treats the subject as an anthropological record of an existing cultural institution rather than an argument for any particular path, letting the people who live as muxes describe their own lives and standing in their communities in their own words.