In 2012 Stockholm, another Dr. Macchiarini surgery ends tragically. In the present, Benita meets Paolo's parents and decides to investigate his background before moving with him to Barcelona.
Young, charismatic and ostensibly brilliant, Dr. Christopher Duntsch, a rising star in the Dallas medical community, was building a flourishing neurosurgery practice when everything suddenly changed. Patients entered his operating room for complex but routine spinal surgeries and left permanently maimed or dead. As victims piled up, two fellow physicians set out to stop him.