Verse play translation of the Sumerian epic of Gilgamesh. A god-king, a great city builder, learns the timeless truth that the only immortality lies in what will be remembered and recorded in his actions. Gilgamesh's quest takes him, and the audience, on a journey through a world that is both mythic and familiar, inhabited by terrifying demons and 'disappeared' political prisoners, by gods and singing transvestites and a Glaswegian jester--and by Enkidu, the beloved child of nature who dies of a virus in the blood, through whom Gilgamesh learns to understand the meaning of loss.