The 2008 Republican National Convention plunges Saint Paul, Minnesota into a sea of protest, discord and tear gas.

A celebration of the demonstrations and riots that greeted the 2008 Republican National Convention. Interviews with protestors and onlookers are interspersed with miles-long marches and confrontations between citizens and black-uniformed riot police.

Months of planning by the directors preceded this overview of the week that the charming, historic streets of downtown Saint Paul were taken over by demonstrators, performance artists and apolitical cranks in search of an audience. Set to the music of New York band Lone Vein, the film is made up of montages of thousand-strong marches and individual acts of weirdness. Sprinkled in are interviews with protestors and onlookers as well as speeches, debates, shouting matches and expressions of personal beliefs that are nothing if not unique (including one gentleman whose philosophy consisted of a familiar two-word expression repeated over and over and over). Then there are the inevitable face-offs between marchers and police. One was enshrouded in tear gas and lit by the neon lights of Mickey's Diner, a refurbished dining car prominently featured in Robert Altman's final film "A Prairie Home Companion." Another led to the mass arrests of nearly 300 reporters and innocent bystanders. Whether you are left, right, center or undecided you will want to see the spectacle that is "I Was a Vagina Before I Was a Black Man" ... if, for no other reason, than to find out what on earth the title means!