Two death-obsessed sisters, outcasts in their suburban neighborhood, must deal with the tragic consequences when one of them is bitten by a deadly werewolf.

When Dr. Lucille Teasdale, one of Canada's first female surgeons, fell in love witha charming Italian colleague, she never dreamed how much her life would change. Following him to the wilds of East-Africa, she finds her true calling careing for the lost, sick and dying in a world of poverty, tribal conflicts and civil war.