Focusing on Adam and Violetta, a young couple suffering from AIDS, this documentary spans a period of six years.
The video depicts the problems attached to this traumatic disease in Poland. The ready supply of cheap, liquid opiates has encouraged widespread drug-taking, especially among young Poles. This circumstance, coupled to the practice of sharing syringes, is largely responsible for the recent explosive spread of the HIV virus in Poland and other East European countries.

In this intolerant climate it is not surprising that many of the victims choose to go underground, which of course merely aggravates the risk of infection. It takes courage to come out with a disease that society reacts to as though it were leprosy. And the welfare state in Poland proves to be inadequate to rescue Adam and Violetta, who are therefore condemned to destitution. Despite their own predicament, the young couple find the moral strength to tell their story in the hope of helping others to avoid disaster