feels like fiction

Tattoo artist Jones Henry has just received a diagnosis that shatters his world: he has contracted the AIDS virus, a consequence of years of reckless intimacy and self-destructive behavior. Reeling from the news, Jones decides to revisit his past-former lovers, fleeting encounters, and the fateful moments he never fully understood...

Through raw recollections, Jones hunts for the moment everything changed, searching not just for the origin of the disease, but for some deeper understanding of himself. As the present tightens around him, he must confront the ghosts he’s inked into his skin-and decide whether the future holds anything worth living for...

An exploration of memory, shame, and the fragile lines between pleasure and pain, Jones must come to terms with his new future, however long that may be...