Neurosurgeon Peter Jenson botches a brain tumor operation. With his patient dying, his wife leaving, and his
enemies denouncing his ability to practice, he begins the long journey to redemption by making a promise he
shouldn't keep to a woman he can't refuse, and seeking the help he needs from a man he can't trust.
The journey leads to anxious surgeries in Florida and gunfights in Central America, resulting only in despair.
Finally, Peter makes a mutual survival pact with his friend's widow, a suicidal alcoholic. Together they seek a
path of love and forgiveness as he faces the fulfillment of a fatal promise, an act that may cost him everything.
