"My life returned. Hadrian, this night enjoy. For the next will be trial. The truth when shown is seen eternal." Hadrian’s love Antinoos died under unknown circumstances in the Nile in Egypt and Hadrian is driven to find out what happens at all costs. Sometimes truth can be destructive yet we still search for it all the time. Mapplethorpe’s images are full of love and truth in my opinion, his truth and love were a homosexual one which was incredibly radical to put into pictures that openly and Hadrian’s true love was a homosexual one as well even though it was not accepted at the time either.