Title: Mardis Gras
Fifty year old American novellist, journalist and blogger, Damien has arrived in Sydney to write a story about the 2010 Mardi Gras. He is travelling incognito because in a recent blog he criticized the relevance of the parade and bemoaned the fact it had drifted so far from its roots as a commemoration of the Stonewall Riots – the first time the fairies fought back.
He is met at the airport by Simon, a young Australian who has been asked to look after him and give him a real “Taste of Australia.”
Set against the backdrop of Sydney and its world-famous and colorful Mardi Gras, the two men find they have a lot more in common than either at first realize