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.
