As mysterious ailments evolve into an insidious scourge, a twosome turns from friendship to love against the backdrop of a contagion, infidelities, and addiction. As San Francisco nurse Marthe Souza stands on the front line of the AIDS epidemic, her bisexual boyfriend, author Kell Vander Kellen, records the struggles of the plague’s rampage. When Kell’s sexual proclivities threaten their relationship, Marthe turns to other passions, Jesus Christ and the music of Patsy Cline, but soon she too seeks corporeal comforts. Marthe’s Catholic faith sustains her as a break-up occurs, but when Kell returns to her realm HIV-positive, the couple faces more than his illness. In his final manuscript, Kell wishes to capture not only their history, but that of the pandemic, intolerance and fear amid steadfast devotion.
