Patrycja and Lukrecja are two transvestites who grew up in a communist state. They spent the 1970s and 1980s on the fringes and found glamour in squalor, strutting through parks and public restrooms, seducing Soviet soldiers, living off drunks, and watching their friends die of AIDS.

To anyone who wasn't there, their shameless and malicious stories from those years seem scandalous. Now they're about to go to Lubiewo, a Baltic seaside resort town inhabited by a younger generation of emancipated gays, and they realize that being gay in today's reactionary, do-gooder Poland is no longer as interesting as it was under the communists. Old-timers and youngsters wage a fierce struggle. The former reclaim their dissolute ways and retain a certain nostalgia for communist Poland. The latter, more civilized, demand equality, respect, the right to marriage and adoption... They all share a pleasure in dispute and extravagance. As in the Decameron, Lovetown mixes portraits, anecdotes, sexual scenes, and memories of debauchery and takes us into a hidden world. Heir to Pasolini, but also to Selby in Last Exit to Brooklyn, Witkowski pulls off a literary feat. Constantly shifting perspectives, he moves from tragedy to comedy, from idyll to satire, from the sordid to the sublime, with a freedom that mocks all taboos.