Bilal Baig is a Canadian writer and actor, most noted for their play Acha Bacha. The play, which centres on a gay Pakistani-Canadian man struggling to reconcile his sexuality with his Muslim upbringing, was staged in a joint production by Theatre Passe Muraille and Buddies in Bad Times in 2018. In 2020 Baig was announced as the co-creator and star of Sort Of, an eight-episode CBC Television comedy series centring on a genderfluid character. The series is slated to premiere on CBC in the 2021-22 television season.
Thirty-five-year-old Seattleite Sadie Wells needs an escape. She’s desperate to escape her monotonous routines, the family business that has consumed her entire life, and the unexpected gay panic that has her questioning everything she thought she knew about herself. So when her injured sister offers Sadie her place on a tour along Portugal’s Camino de Santiago, she decides this is the perfect chance to get away from it all. After three glasses of wine on the plane and some turbulence convince Sadie she won’t even survive the flight, she confesses all her secrets to her seatmate, Mal. The the plane doesn’t crash, and it turns out Mal is on her Camino tour. Worst of all, Sadie learns that she is on a tour specifically for queer women, and that her two-hundred-mile trek will be a journey of self-discovery, whether she wants it to be or not. Fascinated by the woman who drunkenly came out to her on the plane, Mal offers to help Sadie relive the queer adolescence she missed out on as they walk the Camino. As Sadie develops her newfound confidence, Mal grapples with a complicated loss and unexpected inheritance. But as their relationship blurs the lines between reality and practice, they both must decide if they will forever part at the end of the tour or chart a new course together.
