C. Everett Koop

Join Marlin Maddoux, host of the nationally syndicated radio news talk program Point of View, for an investigation into the multi-million dollar a year baby parts trafficking industry, which is one of the most lucrative businesses in operation today. Yet most Americans are unaware of its existence. Many have heard about the controversy surrounding fetal tissue research but have no idea how the tissue is obtained. Today, some are claiming that cures for a number of devastating diseases, including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, diabetes and AIDS, are just around the cornerand that fetal tissue is desperately needed for research. But is it really?

신들린 소녀를 구하기 위해 악령을 자기 몸에 받고 투신 자살한 옛 친구 데미안 카라스 신부의 15년째 제삿날, 다이어 신부와 킨더만 형사는 서로를 위로하면서 병원에서 벌어지고 있는 연쇄적 살인 사건에 대해 이야기한다. 살인 방법이 15년전에 데미안 신부의 죽음과 같은 때에 전기 의자에서 사형당한 어떤 살인자의 방법과 너무나 흡사한데 놀란다. 그후 얼마되지 않아 또다른 신부와 무고한 흑인이 십자가에 매달린채 살해 당하고, 이윽고 다이어 신부마저 참혹하게 피살된다. 이에 킨더만 형사는 병원에서 철야 수사를 펼치게 된다. 그러던 어느날 우연히 11호 독방에 있는 환자가 죽은 데미안 신부와 닮았다는 인상을 받게 되고, 그와 직접 대면을 하게 되는데...

On the eve of 1987's Second National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, surviving families and friends of people who have died of AIDS prepare panels to be added to a large-scale memorial quilt project. Drawing from the sea of names memorialized, director Robert Epstein focuses on the lives of six people. Alongside the intimate profiles offered, through news footage and interviews, Epstein puts the AIDS crisis in the larger context of social and government response to the disease.