In her novel Orlando, Virginia Woolf developed a fascinating character that showed how blurring the line between the sexes can be. An epic story of a young and androgynous nobleman from Elizabethan times who lives four hundred years without hardly aging, and one morning in the eighteenth century wakes up as a woman. This is an amazing novel, "the longest love letter in history", dedicated to Vita Sackville-West, lover of Virginia, and adapted for the big screen freely and brilliantly by Sally Potter. No one else but Tilda Swinton could be Orlando. And Quentin Crisp, of course, is Queen Elizabeth. The sovereign bequeaths Orlando some land and a castle along with a promise: not to fade, no to wilt, not to age. Orlando decides to devote himself to poetry and has many adventures: he falls in love with the daughter of a Russian ambassador and of an archduke, travels to the East were he nearly dies, lives with gypsies... True to the idea of Woolf's present time, Potter concludes the adventure not in 1928, but in the nineties, when Orlando has a daughter and is finally close to literary success. Jimmy Somerville himself appears in a famous cameo as a singing angel.