Having been hospitalized for a long time, a young girl finds herself surrounded by people who cannot understand the strangeness of her illness. After her friend visits her, she must accept that her relationships may never be the same, and that her expectations that tether her to a life outside of the hospital may be very different from the disappointing reality.

A man in the metalworking industry is blinded by a tragic work accident and finds himself using humor as a coping mechanism and way to cover up his own fears while in the hospital.

A cancer patient undergoes her treatment and struggles to distract herself from the pain by remembering conversations with her ex-husband.

A young boy's stay in the hospital takes a dramatic turn when an unexpected patient arrives.

While sick and bound to a hospital bed, a mathematician-loving office worker ponders on the intricacies of his marriage and dreams of impossible arithmetic equations.

A patient becomes passive during her post-automobile accident surgery. She reflects on how ignorant her doctors are faces feelings of violation.

Faced with inexplicable suffering in a locked ward of a mental hospital, a young woman must choose whether to give up or live life on her own terms.

In a town full of people with tuberculosis, the healthy young daughter of a nurse is teased by two wealthy but frail sisters. When she is caught lying about the cause of her father's death, the girl must figure out how to be proud of who she is.

A nurse tries to do everything to help her patient, a woman going through shock therapy, even if it interferes with the nurse's relationship with her boyfriend.

A young woman gets a teaching job at a school for kids who are sick with Tuberculosis, and falls in love with the school doctor.