Three homeless friends - a Filipina-American with a hidden past a Filipina transsexual and a Puerto Rican hustler - struggle on the Chicago streets to scrounge up enough cash to bus it to San Francisco before the winter cold hits. But when a bearded man on a quest a mystery man in sunglasses a wealthy john and a doughnut shop's spell-casting assistant manager put their hopes and friendships to the test the trio find they must spare some change of a far queerer kind.