A three-paneled look at the worldwide AIDS crisis: in Montreal, a porn actor schemes to pass his mandatory blood test; a young nun makes a personal sacrifice for the benefit of a South African village; in rural China, a black market operative posing as a government-sanctioned blood drawer jeopardizes an entire village's safety
Acting
Lucy Liu's black market operator — chilling pragmatism.
Direction
Fitzgerald's triptych structure refuses easy emotional release.
Writing
Three scripts that never let anyone be simply villain or victim.
Director
Thom Fitzgerald
Chloë Sevigny
Clara the Novice
Shawn Ashmore
Denys
Stockard Channing
Olive Cowie
Lucy Liu
Jin Ping
Olympia Dukakis
Hilde
Simone-Elise Girard
Porn Actor
Chin Han
Soldier Xuan
Sandra Oh
Mary the Nun
Sook-Yin Lee
Tong Xiu, the Rice Farmer's Wife
Tyson Hall
Rapist
Pierre Leblanc
Eggs Benny Guy
Steven Crowder
Depanneur Manager
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The China segment parallels the real 1990s Henan province blood collection scandal where entire villages were infected through contaminated plasma collection equipment.
Fitzgerald structured the film as a triptych to mirror the three-pronged 'ABC' prevention strategy (Abstinence, Be faithful, Condoms) — and how each panel shows that strategy failing.
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