At a demonstration in front of the NYC Board of Education, Dr. Berlin and members of the theater company testify to the importance of comprehensive sex education in schools, protesting the board's decision to exclude information and lessons about condoms from the junior high school curriculum. I have had this curriculum of sex-ed from the age of 10 until now. I have many friends who are abstinent, and many friends who are sexually active. There is nothing wrong with any of my friends because of the decisions they have made. Sex does not equal death.
Ignorance equals death.
Despite the protest of STAR Theatre, the restricted curriculum passed. For Dr. Berlin, however, the battle continues. As the program evolves, STAR performers struggle with the same problems in their own lives that they are dramatizing on stage. Jamaul, one of the company's young male performers also goes through the process. Jamaul, however, is not acting.