Seventeen-year-old Karen persists in renewing an old friendship with her classmate Connie when Connie comes down with AIDS, despite pressure from other students, her mother, and her best friends.
Martha Mason Humphreys was a native of Washington, D.C., and came to Huntsville to teach speech and theater at Alabama A&M University and UAH. A published playwright and author, her first love was always the theater. She acted and directed in community theater and was instrumental in establishing the Wings Awards for the performing arts.