David Stern is a dedicated cancer doctor who commits a tragic error, killing a young female patient. His employer, International Medical Center plans an elaborate cover up, but David refuses to co-operate. As a result he loses everything: his job, his reputation and his long-time girl friend. His professional and social life in tatters, he is sent to Alex Goldberg, a brilliant and beautiful young attorney, who hates doctors, with good reason. Their first meeting starts disastrously, but she offers the desperate young doctor the only way out of his predicament. First she must persuade the grieving family of his late patient that she can help them, . Ultimately David and Alex form an unlikely alliance against the hospital, its multibillion dollar owners and the corrupt attorneys who protect them. As the legal case unfolds David has to trust Alex with his future. If she fails, he faces bankruptcy and ruin. He endures what Alex calls his Penthouse deposition, and a never-ending assault on his reputation. With the trial just weeks away, David takes a ski trip and survives an assassination attempt. The climax of the case is the trial in a Chicago courtroom. All seems lost when David walks into the trap that defense attorney Herb Walton sets for him. It's only David's medical skill that provides a solution, but it will take all of Alex's brilliant eloquence as a lawyer and skill as a poker player to finally defeat International.