Twenty years after the emergence of AIDS, we still do not know how and why this disease appeared when it did. However, there was never a shortage of explanations. In turn, fingers pointed to the island of Haiti, African swine fever, the hand of God, the KGB or the CIA, or even hypothetical sexual relations between Africans and monkeys.

A coproduction Les Films de la Passerelle, MFP, Pathe, Gala Films, RTBF, France 5, Radio Canada, France 2, Channel 4 , MEDIA