1982£®Baltimore£¬Maryland£®A young man bides time in a dimly lit gay bar£®He reads the local gay paper£¬which features a story about six gay men hospitalized with either a rare form of pneumonia or a cancer previously seen only in elderly Mediter¡ª ranean men£®Immediately,his mind flashes back to a Japanese science fiction movie called The Mysterians that he saw as a child in which an alien race unleashed a fatal virus that decimated the human race£®At one point the alien leader,who looked like a pre¡ª cursor to Darth Vader,announced on every television in the world£º¡°Resistance iS fu¡ª tile--surrender a11 hope£®¡±People fell dead in the street£¬covered with spots like medieval plague victims£®That movie kept an eight¡ª year¡ªold boy up for weeks£®NOW he can¡¯t re¡ª member how it ended£¬but he feels he¡¯S back living those childhood nightmares£®A former partner comes over to him£¬but his face has the drawn look of a sick person£®The young man mumbles some words and walks away£®
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