A heartwarming portrait of those real-life heroes that risk their lives every day, through pandemics, cancer wards, and hospice care. This deeply moving documentary explores some of the biggest issues facing America, aging, war, poverty, and prisons, through the work and lives of nurses. Meet Jason Short, who works with home-bound patients in Appalachia; Tonia Faust, who provides hospice care to prison inmates; Naomi Cross, bringing babies into the world in Labor & Delivery.