The year is 1995. It is July, five months before the HIV medicines that changed everything are approved by the FDA. The story covers one day in the life of a small community. The town of Paradise, NJ, is nestled along the Hudson River fifty miles north of NYC. Since the 1950s it has been a haven for artists and the LGBT community. As often occurred during those dark days, when one of their residents, Timmy 'Melons, ' is stricken with AIDS and at death's door, the entire town comes together to put on a show to raise money to pay his bills. This is a story about drag queens and transsexuals, drug dealers and working girls, gays and lesbians. It's a story about how when the rest of America turned its back on those afflicted by AIDS, the LGBT community banded together and with great love and compassion took care of their own