Felix Funicello is a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!

Starting from archival footage of the San Francisco neighborhood of Bilbao, its streets and nightlife, and clubs and discos that no longer exist, this filmic essay explores the idea of a queer space, inviting a somewhat utopian journey through the places of sexual dissidence and outlining a history of cruising and gay desire in the city.