After the news of the world’s first sex change operation, he tries to find funding for his own film about a sex-change entitled ‘Glen or Glenda?’, arguing that he is the person best qualified to make the film because he enjoys wearing women’s clothing – he even wore a bra and panties under his uniform into combat in WWII. He gets his film made after he meets and befriends famous horror actor Bela Lugosi, now an aging, down-and-out, morphine addict. Along with Bela, his entourage of eccentric hangers-on, and all the while trying to deal with his girlfriend who does not understand his crossdressing, Wood goes on to make ‘Bride of the Monster’ and the film he is certain will be his masterpiece – ‘Plan 9 from Outer Space’.