Brian Nowicki is arrested for his participation in a hate crime and sentenced to 600 hours of community service in an AIDS hospice. Faced with the reality of people living their lives in the shadow of this devastating disease, Brian is forced to reexamine his own values and priorities.—Thomas Hofbauer
In The Company Of Strangers is the story of a young man in trouble with the law who is sentenced to 600 hours of community service in an AIDS hospice. There it is hoped he will learn tolerance and compassion. While there, he helps to reconcile a dying man with his estranged son. At the same time, the young man reconnects with his own distant father.—Tom Hofbauer