The ghost of "patient zero", who allegedly first brought AIDS to North America - materialises and tries to contact old friends. Meanwhile, the Victorian explorer Sir Richard Burton, who drank from the Fountain of Youth and now works as Chief Taxidermist at the Toronto Natural history Museum, is trying to organise an exhibition about the disease for the museum's "Hall of Contagion".

John Robinson
as Sir Richard Francis Burton

Norman Fauteux
as Zero

Dianne Heatherington
as Mary

Richardo Keens-Douglas
as George

Charlotte Boisjoli
as Maman

Brenda Kamino
as Dr Cheng

Michael Callen
as Miss HIV

Marla Lukofsky
as African Green Monkey

Von Flores
as Ray

Scott Hurst
as Michael