故事发生在法国南部地中海沿岸的St. Tropez 小镇中，一间名为<La Cage Aux Follex>的夜总会。这是一间专门表演猛男变装皇后秀的夜总会，变装歌舞团的团名就叫Les Cagelles。夜总会长久以来生意还过得去，旧雨新知们三不五时会去捧场，老板Georges 跟他的同志伴侣Albin 就像一般夫妻一样，过着拌嘴吵架又幸福快乐的小生活。一天，Georges 的儿子Jean-Michel 突然回家来告诉他老爸一个惊讶的消息，他爱上了一个女孩，他们决定要共度一生，他们订婚了！女孩的父母亲即将在几天后前来拜访，一切都很突然，而且最惨的是，对方的父亲是极右派政党「传统家庭与道德党」的党魁，如果被他发现他女婿家竟然是个开夜总会的同志家庭，一切就完蛋了！于是夜总会和家中都开始了一阵兵荒马乱的掩饰，同时，Jean-Michel 要求他「妈妈」 Albin 为了他的订婚期末考而躲起来消失一阵子，这令含辛茹苦从小拉拔Jean-Michel 长大、将他视如己出的Albin 情何以堪。隔天，Georges 决定成全儿子，并且花了一番功夫才说服Albin 假扮成「艾尔叔叔」，Albin 在万般别扭之下重新学习如何「当个男子汉」，为了宝贝儿子的幸福豁出去了。然而，就在对方父母到达之前，Jean-Michel 的生母临时无法现身，眼看一切努力就要破功的时候，Albin 又跳了出来，戴上假发、转换角色，以他最擅长的变装皇后技巧，「假扮」成Jean-Michel 的母亲而又化解了一次危机。就在这次的订婚期末考即将于低空及格，两家人在高级餐厅用餐、餐后也和乐融融地唱歌跳舞时，Albin 过于激动，假发被自己扯了下来，身分曝光，一切努力灰飞烟灭。
事迹败露之后，对方父母严厉地逼迫女儿离开Jean-Micheel 永不再见面，女儿也很震惊，但仍深爱Jean-Michel 而愿意接受他和他家庭背景的一切。 Jean-Michel 这时深深体会到Albin 为了他所作的付出和牺牲，也接受和认同了自己的同志家庭背景。在此同时，大批媒体来到夜总会，抢着报导「传统家庭与道德党」党魁出没夜总会的八卦，迫使党魁在不得已之下，为了维护自己的名誉，避开媒体从后门遁逃，并默认了女儿的婚姻。一切圆满结束！

During the play, which is set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, backgrounds of characters are discovered during a birthday party.
Harold celebrates his birthday party, thrown by six of his closest friends. He becomes increasingly morose about losing his youthful looks and claims that he no longer can attract cute young men.
"Cowboy", an attractive blond male prostitute who is "not too bright",is one of Harold's presents.
Alan is an unexpected party guest, Michael's allegedly straight college friend,who is in town and anxious to tell Michael something—but hesitant to do so when he sees the group.
His six closest friends are:
Michael is Harold's "friend-enemy",the host, and a lapsed Roman Catholic alcoholic undergoing psychoanalysis
Donald is a conflicted friend, who has moved from the city to spurn the homosexual "lifestyle".
Bernard is an African-American, who still pines for the wealthy white boy in the house, where his mother worked as a maid.
Emory is flamboyant and "effeminite".
Larry, an aggressively sexual homosexual, and Hank, who "passes" as straight, are a couple, who live together but disagree on the issue of monogamy.
During the party, one humor takes a nasty turn, as the nine men become increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a game, where each man must call someone and tell him he loves him. Michael, believing that Alan has finally "outed" himself when he makes his call, realizes that Alan's wife is the caller when he grabs the phone away from Alan. The audience never learns what Alan intended to discuss with Michael in the end.