Brian Freeman

This documentary looks at Gaetan Dugas, an openly gay flight attendant, demonized for his promiscuity and wrongfully identified as patient zero.

Cheryl, an aspiring black lesbian filmmaker working in a video store, is making a documentary about a black actress from the 1930s who was typecast, credited only as “the watermelon woman.” While uncovering the meaning of her life, Cheryl simultaneously experiences an upheaval in her own.