As the plague ravages humankind, four vampire sisters are torn apart by brutal ethical questions: Do we starve? Do we die? Or do we feed on the healthy and risk the end of both species? Six centuries later, in the 1980s, the daughter of one of the sisters faces a new kind of contagion. The mortal she loves—who must remain unaware of her true identity—is HIV positive. With hyperstylized flair, Eduardo Casanova reimagines vampire mythology as a razor-sharp metaphor for stigmatization and complicity, laced with biting humor and punctuated by a blood-soaked musical number. (me)