Rafferty takes a short vacation, leaving Dan Gentry to care for a man who needs brain surgery, but is himself needed as a witness against a notorious gang boss.

Rafferty must assist a group of Native Americans suffering from pneumonic plague who are trapped in a raging fire.

A teenage gymnast who is well on the way to starving herself to death, a police officer carrying a bullet in his back, and a medical colleague who may be psychotic each pose a mystery for Dr. Sid Rafferty.