Heat Singers / Saint Petersdrag

For many years, Ivan Vasyliovych has been the trade union leader at Ivano-Frankivsk TeploKomunEnergo, a municipal heating company in western Ukraine. His magnum opus is the trade union choir for mechanics, repairmen, dispatchers, book-keepers and other employees. Ivan Vasyliovych is very proud of their creative achievements but is also keen to point out that "the heating comes first - and only then do we sing!". The rehearsal schedule must be organized around the "heating season". As the collective are trying to fix the old pipelines, customers are bombarding the hot-line service. Is it possible to warm up their cold radiators with the power of Ukrainian folk song?

The film is a study of drag culture in Russia and the life of Russian travesty divas in St. Petersburg compared to similar artists from Western countries, where the sexual revolution took place at the time and they became icons of pop culture. Is travesty an art? What is hidden under a mask of foundation and powder? What brought young people into the travesty business?