A gripping tale of sibling conflict unfolds when Maggie Spencer, a renowned executive, is injured during a horseback riding accident with her younger sister, Terri. Following surgery, Maggie becomes paralyzed. As he navigates the complex dynamics of their strained relationship, Dr. Joe Gannon aims to uncover the root of Maggie's paralysis, suspecting it may have a psychological basis.

Dr. Gannon returns to the scenes of his childhood and probes deeply and painfully into his past. When Gannon is stricken with psychogenic symptoms which prevent him from functioning as a physician and he is unable to deal honestly with a patient who is doomed to die, he seeks the cause and cure of his condition in his past. The shocking, long-buried revelations he discovers about himself help him to emerge with new insight as a doctor and as a man.

Dr. Joe Gannon finds himself helping a doctor friend decide a major medical change in his life.