In this memoir, Professor Gao has recounted her life in details, she has also provided, in this memoir, an overview of the AIDS epidemic in China with meticulous care: how she waged war against bogus doctors, how she was harassed, kept under surveillance, and placed under house arrest, how she was forbidden to attend presentation ceremonies in overseas countries, and how she was forced into fleding China to live an exile life in the United States at the age of 83.