A scientific revolution is taking place – a revolution whose influence may well exceed the combined effects that electricity, antibiotics, and computers have had on our lives.  This revolution takes place in the world of the infinitely small – where construction happens atom-by-atom and molecule-by-molecule.  It brings together the scientific disciplines of biology, engineering, chemistry, and physics, where scientific discoveries are offering us unprecedented understanding and control over the fundamental building blocks of all physical things, both animate and inanimate.   This technologic convergence is called nanotechnology.

This is the story of the fight of one country -- and it disparate communities -- to find a way to bring life-saving drugs to millions of its citizens threatened by a new kind of apartheid—one created by a deadly AIDS epidemic, mistrust, and lingering socioeconomic disadvantage.  The outcome of the fight will affect their lives directly and perhaps the fate of this glorious rainbow nation.

The documentary film will be accompanied by a companion book written by Ronald Bayer and Gerald Oppenheimer, the authors of the highly acclaimed AIDS Doctors: Voices from the Epidemic (Oxford, 2000).