 Set in the mid-eighties Michael Pierson, a young gay man, is struck with AIDS in the prime of his life. He s forced to be open about the disease and his homosexuality for the first time with his co-workers (he s a successful lawyer) and family. He, and the people around him, must face up to the inevitablity of his death and the disease that s killing him. "An Early Frost" was many people s first look at an AIDS victim as a human being instead of a statistic.