This production was made as the opening film for the IV International AIDS Conference in Stockholm in June 1988. It gives a broad representation of the global AIDS situation in the late 1980's, and has a particular focus on social structures, poverty and stigma.

Mechai Viravaidya, also known as "Mr Condom", educates people in night clubs, bars and on the streets about the use of condoms to prevent HIV/AIDS.

A Philippine teacher talks about how Western, liberal values on sex is a threat to the youth. He also talks about tourism as an aspect of HIV transmission, and fears that the Philippine government suppresses information about AIDS to protect the tourist industry.

Dr Uthai Sudsukh, a leading thai policy maker on ministry of health and involved in the Thai national AIDS program, talks about the Thailand AIDS situation in 1988 and the current health policy.