The film uses powerful imagery and poetry to explore, celebrate and revolutionize black gay culture.
[citation needed] The film features six black gay artists, five writers reading verses of their poems: Essex Hemphill "American Wedding", Reginald Jackson "Initiation", Steve Langley "Confection", Colin Robinson "Epiphany", "For CJ", "Horizontal Stripes Are In", "To Sir, c Love" and "Unfinished Work" and Donald Woods "What Do I Do About You?
The Pan-African Flag, with black, red, and green stripes, is flashed across the screen throughout the short film.
He continues: "Rearrange syllables, Revolution" as the words are flashed on the screen in white on time with the hip hop music.
The image of the ACT UP triangle is shown again, but this time it has the African continent, with the Pan-African horizontal stripes in it.
Robinson's badly painted lips voice the words on the screen: "Griots shaping language into power, food and substitute for sex, into tools like weapons of survival, rage and passion, with the clarity of spit.
The film shows memorial candles and describes the AIDS epidemic as a "holy procession of dying".
[citation needed] Marlon T. Riggs critiqued the Black Power movement for creating an image of African culture that revolves around the masculine warrior.
Marlon T. Riggs wrote that the African Diaspora created a void in the knowledge many blacks have of their heritage.
[citation needed] “Unfinished Work” by Colin Robinson Steve Langley Donald Woods Bernard Branner Brian Freeman Jesse Harris David Kirkland Willi Ninja Tim Riera Marlon T. Riggs