Synopsis

What does it mean to wield the power of life and death, while grappling with one’s own humanity? This is the story of Henry Marsh, the celebrated British neurosurgeon, who has journeyed to Ukraine for fifteen years to mend lives left broken by conflict; of his Kyiv colleague, a friend and fellow physician who persists in the face of official opposition and outdated surgical realities; and of a young patient clinging to the hope that Henry can offer salvation. Tense, profoundly moving, and surpri