Citizen Cohn

As ruthless lawyer Roy M. Cohn rests in his private hospital room, ravaged by the effects of AIDS, he thinks back on his life. Cohn was very instrumental in the success of Senator Joseph McCarthy's investigations into communist activity in the United States. However, despite Cohn's powerful, intimidating tactics and his influence with such figures as J. Edgar Hoover, he had his own deep secret: homosexuality. Cohn attempts to come to terms with himself and those he has influenced as ghosts from his past arrive to haunt him.