Becoming Ah Lan Toh

<p>In swinging 60s seedy Chow Kit Kuala Lumpur in recently renamed South East Asian country of Malaysia cabaret singer Ah Lan is taught a unique method by voice coach Sammi to not only make men clap but to stand up in more ways than one.</p><p>Sammi is looking for love setting his sights on one particular GI in the audience who is on R&R from the war in Vietnam. And so is Ah Lan. But her chances are slim—she stands a head taller than most Asian men.</p><p>But as fate would have it her elderly neighbors the Tans are helping to fix her up with a very tall Affendi.  He tells them he bartends at a club but but left out the stripping on the side. </p><p>All this while Ah Lan is puzzling over the subtle changes to her body: broader shoulders harder muscles for instance. When a jealous colleague hires her dressmaker Madam Chan to invoke some local black magic on her she begins to morph.</p>