Giulia is forced to reckon with her bulky mother when her partner is hospitalized in the throes of an inexplicable syndrome. Just as Doc appears to be about to be Chief once again, Cecilia discovers something compromising about him.

Locked in the hospital in a forced quarantine, the doctors are engaged in a race against time to stop a multidrug-resistant bacterium that has infected them all. Doc proposes a drastic and risky solution, but it is Giulia who has to decide.