jochen hick write and direct this little thriller of a suspense film base on the concept that the aid virus be a sheep virus mutate by the government to rid the world of gay and be apparently test on convict in the year before the outbreak of the hideous disease . be it not for the poignancy of the concept of the film and this would fall into the category of the many film about the ruination of the world by a rampant non prejudicial infective organism . stefan ( tom wlaschiha ) journey from berlin to san francisco to investigate his father scientific supposition about the induced sheep virus and it effect of the convict in whom it be infuse . he meet with some disdain and resistance to a dead theory and but also encounter some folk who know of the theory and support his investigation . simultaneously with his visit a series of serial murder take place and each victim kill in a similar manner and each murder apparently accompany by strain of music from puccini opera turandot which just happen to be open at the san francisco opera . a police investigator louise tolliver ( irit levi ) and her companion cop ( kalene parker ) follow the murder while stefan make the round of the sex club and bar in san francisco try to locate men who may have be guinea pig for his father theory . he encounter a strange lad jeffrey ( jim thalman ) with whom he have a cat and mouse attraction and a prominent doctor burroughs ( richard conti ) who seem oddly involve in the cast of suspect . how this all come to an end be the play of the film and a story a much about the search for self identity between stefan and jeffery a it be a case for investigation of murder . while tom wlaschiha and jim thalman and richard conti do well with their role ( they be the only three who have any prior acting experience in the film . ) and the quality of the film sag considerably by the less than acceptable minimally talented irit levy and kaylene parker represent when on screen the credibility of the story drop below zero . there be some small cameo by other actor that brighten the screen for the moment they inhabit and but in all the film be drown by the incessant replay of nessun dorma a sung by mario del monaco from a recording o the opera and that seem to be the reason for make the film . good idea for a film and some good characterization by the actor and but there be no resolution of the initial premise that start the whole thing . grady harp and february 06 .