This is the true story of a long-vanished Singapore and the dangerous carnival known as Bugis Street. James Eckardt arrived in 1970s Singapore only to fall in love with a Singaporean nymph named Milly. Thirty years later an email arrived that would lead Eckardt to discover what had happened to the Singapore girl, who, at the time he had loved her, had not technically been female.

The book's cover design reinvents a psychedelic music poster from the late 1960s with a colorful scoop of queer flavor. A crescent moon and stars, a prominent symbol of the national flag of Singapore, sitting proudly on the woman's shoulder in the form of a tattoo.