The boy whose skin is falling off his body holds onto life, the life or death struggle of a baby born with a rare condition, the mother who's afraid of the damage her baby could cause, a 17 year old with the body of a hundred year old woman, and a woman who cries crystal tears.

The Brazilian village where people only emerge at night; the woman born with no arms forced to make tough choices; will there be a medical miracle for the boy with the giant tumour; bedridden for 20 years, is the grandmother with elephantitis on the road to recovery?; and the young girl in the Philippines hoping for a cure for a one-in-a-million syndrome.