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Her life changes when, by luck, she lands a job as a webcam host on a transsexual porn site. The owner of the website, Michael, a &#8220;Ladyboy specialist&#8221; who runs his business from New York, promises to help <b>Raquela<\/b>. Through the internet, <b>Raquela<\/b> makes many interesting friends. Among them is Valery, the only &#8220;out of the closet&#8221; transsexual in Iceland, who is looking for someone like herself. Through her friends in the internet world, <b>Raquela<\/b> eventually gets the opportunity to travel far away on her quest to find the straight man of her dreams. 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