This is the story about Steve Sjöquist - writer, HIV activist and deacon at Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset in Stockholm. Steve was diagnosed with HIV in 1987 and he was one of the first Swedish AIDS patients to get the new antiretroviral therapy in 1996. It saved his life.

Staffan Hildebrand returns to Australia, where he started his project of documenting the AIDS epidemic in 1988, and to Cambodia where he first arrived in 1998. He interviews some of the scientists and activists who he met back then and displays some footage from the archive.

Interview with Hon. Dr Neal Blewett, Australian Minister for Health 1983-90, on the Australian HIV response.

Interviews with young HIV and AIDS activists from Cambodia, Mexico, Sweden, South Africa, and the United States, on youth, HIV and AIDS.

XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. Demonstration on HIV and human rights in the Lafayette Park. Interviews with demonstrants about womens rights and the rights of sex workers and drug users.

XIX International AIDS Conference. Panel discussion on youth HIV/AIDS activism focusing on stigma and discrimination, internet and social media in the HIV/AIDS response and how to influence political leaders and older generations to take action.

Opening ceremony of the Global Village at the XIX International AIDS Conference in Washington D.C. in 2012. Music performances and speeches by Michel Sidibé from UNAIDS, and others. Global Village is a section with representatives from civil society and HIV organizations.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna. Interview with Frank Maluwa who is a member of the Shapa Boys, a group of bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi working with HIV prevention and against payment with sex for taxi services.

XVIII International AIDS Conference in Vienna in 2010. Press conference about the Shapa Boys, an initiative by male bicycle taxi drivers in Malawi, supported by the organization Friends of AIDS Support Trust (FAST), to prevent sex as payment for taxi services.