Randi Acton

A story of an improbable friendship between a Santa Barbara socialite, suffering from ALS and her caretaker from Senegal.

A lesbian stripper lives with her lover, a novelist with writer's block who cheats on her with another woman.

Stevie is apprehended in a gay-bashing and sentenced to serve community time in an AIDS hospice. At first, Stevie is intent of doing as little as possible but he is soon confronted with the reality of AIDS. Gradually, he befriends Will, a patient who becomes a mentor to him.