The Moult
In the small fictional town of Canterberry, Aisha lived a double life. In the morning, she was Queen Bee Ai, who roamed the hallways of Canterberry high, tormenting boys and girls alike with her perfectly-chosen clique of beauties and followers. At night, she was "He", a transgender man hiding behind the facade of a popular high school girl. To add to her burdens, she was a secular Muslim, along with her family who were very welcome among the diverse community to which they belong yet shunned from the so-called conservative Muslim community (which is starting to become a ghetto across the foreign, secular country).
Aisha and her mother have kept her secret of being both male and female for as long as they could muster. But lately, with the emergence of a cross-dressing serial killer named by the press and the police "The Dollhouse Killer" -a sadistic murderer who kidnaps teenage boys, leaving a dollhouse in the crime scene and getting rid of the corpses in public places, displaying the boys, naked, in full makeup and hanging by the arms from a rope with shaved pubic hair and a deadly lipstick-smeared duct tape- Aisha has begun to start a mutiny on hiding who she really is. Seeking all she could find about "The Dollhouse Killer", Aisha becomes part of the underground LGBT society, where people become themselves behind locked doors and for the first time Aisha becomes Val, a man with long dark locks and a fake mustache. There she meets a handsome stranger, hiding his eyes behind a purple, glittery mask and calling himself "Yamen". There she also meets a drag queen named Lisa, an all-important transgender lady who goes by the name "She" and turns out to be the town's mayor's brother and second-in-command; Mr. Robert Sutherland.
Apart from her night escapades, Aisha is a regular 16-year-old who refers to herself as she and he. When the class slut Linda discovers her secret and gives her a mindblowing blowjob, Aisha becomes more and more at peace with her own body and her fluid, gender identity. Along with Linda, she works on attracting the attention of Ahmed, the shy Albanian Muslim kid in school, who is bullied and declared a "terrorist" by his peers and whose parents also bully into becoming the traditional Muslim that they believe he should become.
When neurotic Rita has an encounter with the Dollhouse killer and prevents him from snatching her brother, the town's wrath breaks loose. Crimes against transgender teens become more violent and furious. Hate crimes against gays also rise to an alarming rate. Aisha becomes more and more afraid of showing who she really is; despite Ahmed confiding in her that he is actually gay and afraid of coming out to his family. So when Ahmed gets kidnapped by 'The Dollhouse Killer", it's up to Aisha and Linda to break through the siege around Rita and form an investigative trio where secrets get uncovered and truths become lies in a race against time to find Ahmed.