Quentin Crisp

Fountain paints his story agaisnt the backdrop of Crisp's colourful and controversial life and sheds some light on the intriguing events leading up to his death. It is a compelling portrait of man who Fountain calls a 'great, glittering contradiction': a man who flaunted his sexuality at a time when the penalty for buggery was gaol, a man whose very name epitomised style and yet lived alone in abject poverty in a room he refused to clean and a man who confidently declared at the height of the AIDS epidemic that he 'didn't believe it existed'.