by Gönül Dönmez-Colin
synopsis
From the director of the acclaimed Salaam Bombay, My Own Country is based on the best-selling memoir of an Ethiopian doctor who treated HIV and AIDS patients in Johnson City in the smoky mountains of Eastern Tennessee in 1985.
characteristics
- Marital-problems
- Marriage-problems
- Nurse
- Small-town
- Living With AIDS
- Homosexual
- Doctor
- Fish-out-of-water
- Gay

