Set in New York in the mid-1980s, Jew Louie Iansonlives with his gay love, Pryor Walter. But Pryor later found out that he had AIDS, the disease was still poorly understood by society at the time, and Louis could not bear the huge pressure and abandoned him and moved out. Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, there is a Republican lawyer named Joe Pitt He's a Mormon, and he's doing his best to suppress his homosexuality. In the show, the notorious McCarthyist Roy Kangoffers him a promising job that Joe doesn't take right away because he worries about his Valium-addicted wife Harper.
As the plot progresses, Player discovers that ghosts and angels often visit him. Joe struggles with his own religious beliefs and sexual orientation. Louis regretted abandoning his lover very much, and was constantly tortured by his conscience. Joe's mother, Hannah, moves to New York to take care of her daughter-in-law when she learns that her son is gay. And Roy Kang himself is also a comrade. He was admitted to the hospital because of AIDS. The nurse in charge of caring for him is a black comrade named Belize, who is a friend of Pryor. Women's show. Finally, during the Cold War, the communists who were executed by American justice for Roy Kang's behind-the-scenes manipulation also turned into ghosts to retaliate against him.