XIX International AIDS Conference. Session on leadership and health policy with leaders of community networks in Russia and India, and the US governmental program PEPFAR. They answer questions on access to ARV treatment, housing and morphine for pain relief.

The primary focus of this documentary is on the history of how the AIDS epidemic started in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York in 1981. Many different stories are told about people affected or surrounded by HIV and AIDS in the early years of the epidemic.