Cantar Ethanual Holt, professor of anatomy at a prestigious medical school, is fighting to reclaim a lost surgical career. But when his wife's cancer returns, his hopes are shattered.
At the same time, Richmond Merchison-Banks, an arrogant but brilliant medical student, is humiliated into repeating after Cantar is forced to fail him.
When both men become infatuated with second year medical student, Livia Bravanovski, they're thrown into a vicious struggle of pride, jealousy and revenge.
But when jealousy becomes disease, it seems only surgery holds the cure.
