Jimmy is 19 and a polytechnic student. He has been sexually active since he was 16. Like some gay adolescents, he has a false sense of invulnerability when it comes to unsafe sex.

There has always been a certain fatalism in him, and he has always believed that he would not live beyond thirty at most. Part of this is due to the fact that his social circle is composed of those his age; he cannot clearly imagine the lives of gay men thirty years and above. He believes they are invariably lonely. Jimmy's fear of aging has its source in his sauna visits, where the sight of men-old enough to be his father-walking around in towels fills him with both pity and disgust.