 The late sixties and early seventies were tumultuous and divided times in America - especially to those who were students in Washington DC colleges. The Vietnam War was in full swing, Nixon was president and protests by student against the war would often fill the streets. May Day is the tale of two mismatched college roommates - one an anti war film student and the other an ROTC member and the son of a right-winged Republican politico. They may have been mismatched by opinions and politics - but they weren t by emotions. The duo slowly becomes friends. Then, after one comes to the defense of the other during the 1970 May Day war protests, they end up becoming lovers -- surprising themselves and all of their closest friends. Fast forward 36 years. The film student is now a successful Hollywood Producer and back in Washington DC to receive an award for his work. His dearest friend is an "aging film diva" who uses this situation to engineer a way for him to finally deal with "closure" on that all important first love of his, one he has missed all these years. May Day storyline also parallels current anti-war sentiment, gay issues and right winged sentiment toward Hollywood and liberal thinking and does it through the eyes and emotions of the principle characters - then and now.