The film is adapted from the best-selling novel "Breakfast On Pluto" by Patrick McCabe, a British Booker Prize-nominated writer. It tells the story of a transvestite boy, Patrick Braden (Cillian Murphy), who never changed himself and kept looking for his mother in the 1970s under the environment of social criticism. Patrick was abandoned by his parents when he was a baby and then adopted by a priest (Liam Neeson). But he liked to wear girls' clothes since he was a child and imagined himself to be a girl. He didn't know who his mother was, let alone where she was now. When Patrick grew up, he wore a golden wig and painted a heavy female makeup. He refused anyone to change himself, but how could he know that this harsh environment could tolerate such "alien". Along the way, Patrick met all kinds of strangers and searched for his mother all the way. The leading actor Cillian Murphy was nominated for the Best Actor in a Comedy or Musical at the 63rd Golden Globe Awards for his outstanding performance in "Breakfast on Pluto".