pencil: Sicomoro

storia: Claude Moliterni

The story narrates the journalistic investigation of a French reporter.
He is assigned by his director to investigate the H.I.V. virus. and its diffusion.
Marc Jourdan travels to San Francisco and discovers that an old friend of his is dying of AIDS, infected by a man infected by a transfusion.
Marc discovers global plasma trafficking, which does not care about the health of the donors.
The investigations finally lead him to Africa, where he meets a doctor who is developing a possible cure, called MM1.
One of the black doctor's collaborators tells him a hypothesis about the origins of the virus.
A tribe performed a rite for the transition to adulthood, in which the males of the village, at the age of 13, mated with local monkeys, where the virus was present in latent form.
Marc tracks down those responsible for blood trafficking and causes their death in a car accident, taking revenge on his dead friend.