Via Appia

Frank a HIV infected former Lufthansa steward goes back to Rio from Germany with a film crew to look for Mario a young man with whom he had a one night stand Before Mario departed the morning after he left a message scrawled in soap on the bathroom mirror Welcome to the AIDS club Frank and his director hire a fast talking hustler named José Guilherme di Padua to help them to find Mario who seems alway to have just left whenever they arrive Via Appia is the nickname of a Rio district where male prostitutes hang out