This revelation receives mixed reactions from the crew, demonstrating a lasting stigma around the disease despite working on a film to promote awareness on HIV/AIDS.

Liang also follows actors from the film and extras who have the diagnosis and uses the documentary to let these individuals both share their stories and offer insight to the disease and the effect on their lives and relationships with others.

[4] Liang joins an online chat room specifically for individuals with HIV and AIDS and asks about their stories and willingness to be filmed for the documentary.

[4] While many are hesitant to film, the few who do agree have their identities protected and share how they contracted the disease, who knows of their status among family and friends, and the stigma that the diagnosis has in the modern day.

[4] Together was filmed beside Love for Life, marking the first time the blood selling scandal of the 1990s had been featured in mainstream Chinese media.

More still, the Chinese government backed the film, and used it as a way to advocate public health information on HIV/AIDS, and the living condition and social impact it has on those who contract it.