![]() ![]() It is also the story of survivors and their guilt, their suffering, and what can only be described as PTSD. I know because I was there, actually in New York, but the experience as the disease was a pandemic. ![]() It beautifully reflects an era, with all its terror and anger his hope and despair and yes, even his humor. Rebecca Maccai’s story of the lives of a group of gay men and friends in Chicago at the dawn of the AIDS epidemic is a moving and masterful re-enactment. The two intertwined stories take us through the angst of the 1980s and the chaos of the modern world as Yale and Fiona struggle to find good in the midst of disaster. As she stays with an old friend, a famous photographer who documented the Chicago crisis, she finally comes to terms with the devastating effects of AIDS on her life and her relationship with her daughter. Thirty years later, Fiona is in Paris searching for her estranged daughter, who has disappeared into a cult. One by one his friends die and after his friend Nico’s funeral, the virus draws ever closer to Yale and soon all he has left is Fiona, Nico’s little sister. But as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around them. ![]() ![]() In 1985, Yale Tishman, the director of development for a Chicago art gallery, is about to pull off an incredible coup by gifting the gallery with an extraordinary collection of paintings from the 1920s. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |