Mike plans a graceful retirement from drag after one last lip-sync as Mabel Syrup, hoping to leave the stage before forty turns her into a joke.
Firefly welcomes the queen with open arms, which only leaves the shy, awkward man beneath the sequins less sure of who he really is.
A closeted, tightly controlled CEO arrives, enchanted by a town racing to host its first pride parade, and he is convinced that Mike is the bravest man there for living as himself.
He is not falling for Mabel; he is falling for Mike, even while the town demands the glittering, sharp-tongued performer onstage.
Mike can no longer tell those two people apart, and he fears that giving Firefly the drag spectacle it craves will send away a man who is not ready to see him in full glory.
He is starting to believe that Mabel is not a costume, but part of the truth he has been afraid to claim.
