Adapted from a stage musical, this rock musical plays with the lines of gender in its tale of a queer singer-songwriter who grew up in communist East Berlin. Fascinated with philosophical ideas about identity, soulmates, and gender, Hedwig changes her life to escape her home and marry an American soldier. In order to pull it off, Hedwig undergoes a gender reassignment surgery, which goes wrong. Over the next few years, Hedwig has to reset her life over and over again, from having her music stolen by someone she thought loved her to starting her own band. In the end, only Hedwig can truly reconcile the different parts of herself into a person she can be happy as.