Lynn, a fourth-year medical student at Mason Dixon University, thinks she has her life figured out. But when her otherwise healthy boyfriend, Carl, enters the hospital for routine surgery, she doesn't know it's the last time she will see him whole again. Lynn searches for answers and she uses all her resources at Mason Dixon, including her initially reluctant lab partner, Edward, to hunt down evidence of medical error or malpractice. What she uncovers, however, is far more disturbing.