74-year-old Mick is rushed in with suspected sepsis and his wife shares her experience as his full time carer. 61-year-old Jillian comes in after a fall and recalls when her husband was diagnosed with stage four bowel cancer. Keith arrives with a fast heart rate and while staff urgently try to bring it down his wife talks about raising deaf children and being diagnosed with the `deaf gene".

Twenty year-old Peta is rushed into Queen's Medical Centre after coming off her motorbike, her mum explains the struggle she went through raising a child with both Asperger's and ADHD. After a previous stabbing 21 year-old Callum was left with a stoma, he arrives at the hospital after it has badly prolapsed. Forty-four year-old Libby comes in after being hit in the face with a hockey stick, she tells the story of how her professional footballer husband taking on a new career path changed her life.