Rio Sudiro has been living with HIV from his birth, and both his parents have died of AIDS. Rio’s father passed away while he was still in his mother’s womb and his mother has recently passed ...

But Rio’s story [from a play by Anne Caldwell, based on an original story by Louis Brock] lets it down. It’s slow and lacks laughs to the point where average business seems its groove.

Tourists take photos in front of the residence, located at the corner of Rua Roquete Pinto and Avenida João Luiz Alves, in Urca, Rio’s South Zone ...