In Denmark, Copenhagen a young man called Einar Wegener and his wife Gerda who are a great happy married couple who love art and like to experiment a lot one day decide to take a portrait of him dressed as a woman. Doing this just as a experimentation he will later attend a party dressed as a girl.
Later in the movie he will find out that he actually prefers to live being Lili and this will result in great changes on all the characters’ life in this movie. His wife trying to get him cured and a lot of doctors and psychologists who will try to make him know that what he’s doing is not okay. Now, after long trying, he will end up in a reconciliation with himself and making the first ever sex-change operation. An awesome movie about how difficult it is someone who thinks different.