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Dr. Gemma Almonte (Roselyn Perez) appears onstage, breaks the fourth wall, and begins lecturing the crowd about the human immunodeficiency virus. The spotlight then shifts to a group of patients from different walks of life waiting for their HIV test results. Syd (Eko Baquial) accompanies his sick friend Jonathan (Miguel Almendras) to the doctor as he suffers from what seems like pneumonia that came out of nowhere. When he finds out that he’s HIV+, he faces the dilemma on how to tell his boyfriend Greg (Anthony Falcon) that he might have it, too. Crossdressing parlorista (Duds Teraña) takes his friend to a clinic and also decides to get tested on a whim, finding out that his friend is negative but he is not. Sex worker Mary Rose (She Maala) is diagnosed positive but isn’t at all surprised. Teenager Louie (Miko Esquivel) also tests positive, much to the bewilderment of his loudmouth mother Aling Loida (Kitsi Pagaspas), who is about to discover a secret crime committed against her son. Different people, same virus, one fight against an epidemic without a cure.
