Pieter-Dirk Uys built his career as South Africa's most prominent political satirist, best known for his alter ego Evita Bezuidenhout, a fictional Afrikaner diplomat he uses to say things about race and politics that would be dangerous to say as himself. Director Julian Shaw follows him past the stage persona into a role few audiences ever see: touring South African schools to talk to children directly about HIV/AIDS, a subject the country's own government spent years denying. The film sits in classrooms as Uys, sometimes in character and sometimes not, gets teenagers to talk about sex, infection, and stigma in a country with one of the world's highest HIV rates. Shaw also gets access to Uys's private life away from the cameras and crowds, cutting between the performer working a room and the man who keeps showing up at schools long after the initial controversy faded. The film won the Independent Spirit Award and was runner-up for the Audience Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, and played more than fifty festivals worldwide.