In this collection of thirty-four monologues, Michael Kearns challenges the actor to identify with characters that cross the lines of age, race, gender, class, and sexual preference. The monologues are about people who have lives beyond their health status and they represent one artist's response to the AIDS crisis." T-Cells & Sympathy" stands as a testament to Kearns' philosophy that it is the actor's "responsibility to play all things human."