Jennifer Hernandez is a fourth-year medical student, just completing an elective in general surgery, whose world is shattered. While relaxing in the surgical lounge, she listens to a piece on medical tourism, where first-world citizens travel to third-world countries for surgery. She hears her grandmother's name mentioned, Maria Suarez-Hernandez had died, a day after undergoing a hip replacement in New Delhi. Maria had raised Jennifer and her brothers...

Lynn Peirce, a fourth-year medical student at South Carolina's Mason-Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, her neatly ordered life is thrown into total chaos. Carl fails to return to consciousness after the procedure, and an MRI confirms brain death. Devastated by Carl's condition, Lynn searches for answers. Convinced there's more to the story...