In this excellent melodrama, a man's boyfriend, André, has died of AIDS and André's mother (Sada Thompson) cannot come to grips with the reality of the situation. She feels that the man (Richard Thomas) has seduced her son into the evils of homosexuality and thereby caused his death. Despite her rejection of him, he persists in trying to establish a relationship with Andrés mother. The film is about ideas, feelings and ideas about feelings. The films starts by dealing with feelings and then it becomes very conversational, at a deep level, about those feelings. As in the later film, Chasing Amy, there is much to be learned, by heterosexuals, about homosexuality.