[3][4] A group of contrasting characters share one thing in common: They all have to do with the subject of AIDS.

A curious blood doctor tries to find out the origin of HIV and shares the positive test results with her patients, not without gloating.

Finally, the government decides to isolate the infected people on the island of Helgoland in order to contain the epidemic, but the outcasts put up a brave fight.

"A Virus Respects No Morals, a Brechtian-like allegory set largely in a gay bath, was one of the early and more provocative attacks on the hypocrisy, ignorance, politics and economics surrounding the AIDS crisis."

(Los Angeles Times)[1] Critic Jerry Tallmer, founder of the Obie Award, wrote: "Rosa (originally Holger) von Praunheim, the brilliant, acerbic director of such breakthrough gay-revolutionist works as Silence = Death and A Virus Knows No Morals.