Touch

Rayna Sargent is a thirty-five-year-old artist who supports herself by working as a telephone crisis-line social worker for a local clinic. She finds it necessary, and even easy, to shut out the desperate voices on the other end of the line once she leaves work at night to return to her true love - painting. She has always managed to protect herself within a tight bundle of routine, buffered from the reality of others' pain. It gets harder to turn off the voices, though, when Rayna finds out that an old friend with whom she has lost touch is now in the last stages of AIDS. Rayna knows she…