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In the original 'October Surprise', three weeks before Election Day 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson discovers that police have arrested his top aide of twenty-five years, Walter Jenkins, in a public bathroom sex sting. Worse, the media uncover that it's not Walter's first arrest. After Johnson orders an FBI investigation to establish how Walter passed his White House background check, the two can no longer be observed interacting.

Dustin, an Upper East Side rich kid in early-eighties Manhattan, volunteers at a downtown clinic to subvert his privilege -- a gig that was once a sleepy diversion, but that now keeps Dustin awake at night: as positive AIDS cases mount, so does the stress upon Dustin's heart.