In the 1970s, a young trans woman, Patrick "Kitten" Braden, comes of age by leaving her Irish town for London, in part to look for her mother and in part because her gender identity is beyond the town's understanding.
— Yes, you see, in the cell... sometimes I think my legs are turning into air... and I'm floating in space, and I'm all alone.
— "Galactic aloneness," I've heard that called.
— Please, Routledge. I just wanna belong. I'd be your best prisoner. I'd cook and I'd clean and I'd sweep... and I'd iron all the uniforms. I....
— So why do you call yourselves the Border Knights?
— Because the only border that matters... is the one between what's in front... and what you've left behind. When I ride my hog, you think I'm riding the road? No way, man. I'm traveling from the past into the future with a druid at my back.
— Druid man or druid woman?
— That doesn't matter. What matters is the journey.
