Love. Friendship. Heartache. Loss. A close-knit circle of friends share all these during one year (beginning in 1989) living in New York’s East Village, a rundown neighborhood of squatters, homeless and bohemians who would rather suffer for their art than “sell out” and live a conventional, bourgeois life.
Roger, a struggling songwriter, mourns the loss of his girlfriend from AIDS; he too is HIV-positive. Mark, a filmmaker of sorts, is dumped by his girlfriend, Maureen, who takes up with a lesbian lover, Joanne. Mimi is an “exotic dancer” at a local nightspot—and an HIV-positive heroin addict. Tom is an out-of-work philosophy professor who hooks up with Angel, a drag queen. Both are HIV-positive.
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And then there’s Benny. The former group friend is now their enemy because he’s working for a wealthy family of real estate developers—as bourgeois as you can get—and wants to tear down the building the friends live in rent-free.
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