By Hook Or By Crook

By Hook Or By Crook is a 2001 crime drama film with a thread of romance. After his father dies, a transgender man called Shy leaves his small town for the city, hoping to make a living through crime. There he meets Valentine, an offbeat adoptee looking for his birth mother, and the two quickly become close friends and partners. Maribel Guardia appears in a swimsuit scene from the film rather than a nude one.