A mother. A daughter. Two women—two radically different responses to AIDS. Pinky is loud and flamboyant. She likes dressing up and speaking her mind. A tireless AIDS awareness campaigner who contracted HIV from a blood transfusion, she spares no one’s feelings in her efforts to publicise the disease. But her daughter Ntombi, like any teenager, just wants to fit in. She says if she had AIDS she’d take the knowledge to her grave, that if anyone asks she says her mother is sick because of cancer. A brutally honest, intimate, sometimes touchingly funny look at how AIDS has affected a family and the relationship between mother and daughter.