Simone Garcia-Hampton closely guards her secret--that she is HIV-positive--especially after the backlash she received last time she dared tell anyone. Now, though, when she becomes the student director of "Rent" and begins dating Miles, she knows she will have to tell him some time, especially when their relationship grows more intimate and sex becomes a possibility. When an anonymous blackmail note appears in her locker threatening to reveal her secret, Simone knows she has to do something drastic to gain the life she wants.