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In this compelling, award-winning feature documentary, controversial South African political satirist Pieter Dirk Uys, who gained infamy in the 1980s for his cross-dressing parodies of the apartheid regime, allows director Julian Shaw into his previously off-limits inner world. The result is a startling document of Pieter's work educating school children about their country's greatest threat, HIV/AIDS, and an unforgettable portrait of one man’s struggle to inspire and change the lives of millions of young people. With AIDS threatening the lives of an entire South Africanan generation, Pieter Dirk Uys sets out on the road in drag to raise awareness about the virus through the instructive power of humour, and compassion. We also go to the small town of Darling, and into the home of the reclusive comedian and campaigner, a national celebrity who has long kept the cameras from his personal domain.