"Sodomy ain’t so symbolic. Your rectum ain’t a grave."
The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".
Sir Richard Francis Burton
Zero
Mary
George
Maman
Dr Cheng
Miss HIV
African Green Monkey
Ray
Michael
Ross
Barry
Ted
Narrator (voice)
Newscaster (voice)
Dr Placebo
Unknown Role
Shower Boy
Shower Boy
Shower Boy
CMV
Syphilis
Mycoplasma
School Kid
School Kid
School Kid
Snake
Fox
Mouse
Parrot
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Swimmer
Reporter #1
Reporter #2
Reporter #3
AIDS Demonstrator
AIDS Demonstrator
Bathhouse Patron