No One Sleeps

San Francisco is abuzz with anticipation for the debut of a new production of Puccini’s opera, Turandot. The intense tale of the Chinese princess Turandot and her enigmatic three riddles, which hold the key to winning her heart, is the talk of opera enthusiasts across the city. Meanwhile, a serial killer is targeting the city’s gay bars, preying on long-term HIV-positive survivors. Stefan, a young gay medical student from East Germany, arrives in San Francisco for a medical conference, tracing the footsteps of his deceased father, who was a prominent AIDS researcher in the East. Stefan is delving into the possibility that the HIV virus was a byproduct of clandestine human experiments conducted in U.S. prisons during the 1970s—a theory proposed by Berlin professor Jakob Segal and disseminated by former East German state agents. Rumors suggest that secret documents related to these biological experiments have emerged in San Francisco.