Renowned psychiatrist Sam Allyn has fallen from grace, landing at a remote institution specializing in the Jerusalem syndrome, the sudden belief that one is a living, breathing figure from the Bible. There he confronts Patient X, whose behavior is so volatile, so mysterious, so infectious that Sam begins to question whether she is really suffering from psychosis or from something far more terrifyi...

In 1968, a white student from Brooklyn finds himself an outsider at Nashville’s legendary black medical school, where he and his peers attempt to battle the mysteries of medicine, demanding professors, and each other in their quest to become healers in the Service To Man.