Docile and unemployed Heider Rana (Ali Junejo) is married to a working woman Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq). On the face of it he has a happy marital and comfortable home life, the couple live under the same roof as the rest of the Rana tribe.
After his father pressures him to find a job Heider gets one, as a backup dancer for Biba (Alina Khan), a trans woman who is part of a colorful entertainment show called ‘Joyland’. Through Biba, Heider begins to slowly open up and discover a new way of living. While Heider is living the dream, Mumtaz is beginning to feel frustrated by the pressure of the conservative society that expects her to stay at home and serve the family’s patriarch.
“Joyland” is a bitter-sweet story of repression and the wish for self-fulfillment.
