A philosophy students research draws him into the sexual underground of 1980s and early nineties New York John Marr is surprised he doesnt have AIDS. He has been having near-daily sexual encounters with strange men since before the dawn of HIV, but he remains healthy. His initiation began in the bathroom of the Staten Island Ferry Terminal, and since then he has found himself at home in the darkest corners of Manhattans culture of anonymous gay sex. During the day, it is a different story, as Marr works on his graduate thesis—an analysis of the work of a brilliant 1970s philosopher who died mysteriously in one of the gay bars of Hells Kitchen. As his research and his sex life begin to converge, Marr senses that if AIDS doesnt get him, something darker will.
