Disrobes the reality of gender, performing a striptease of masks and prosthetic devices, the subtle articulations and miscues of desire The Bitter Half opens in 1935 in Pearce, Arizona, where Chris Pollard, a famed if eccentric authority on jail breaks, has been called in to investigate the case of The Kid, an inmate who has broken out of every prison in which he has been held. The Kid appears and disappears, eluding his pursuers,...