p 　　Cuba, the mid-八0s, anyone diagnosed with HIV AIDS is sent to a military-run internment camp Former boxing champion Horacio Romero is assigned to be a personal warden--companion--to troublemaker patient Daniel Despite their initial distrust and ignorance, the two form a platonic bond that leads them to be better men The Companion shows the stigma associated for those with HIV AIDS in the early days of the epidemic--gay and straight This eye-opening drama finds friendship and compassion during a little-known chapter in Cuban history p