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The Red Umbrella Diaries focuses on seven LGBT sex workers as they prepare for the biggest performance of their lives, a night at Joe’s Pub in front of a live audience, ready to hear real stories from a world many can hardly imagine, let alone understand. The mission of the film is to capture the humanity of a group of sex workers as they explore the question: what happens when people whose voices are almost never represented in mainstream media take control of their own stories?