Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman), an ambitious white surgeon, and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician become pioneers in the heart surgery field, while living in...

Alfred Blalock (Alan Rickman), an ambitious white surgeon, and Vivien Thomas (Mos Def), a gifted black carpenter turned lab technician become pioneers in the heart surgery field, while living in the 1930's Jim Crow south, and begin defying the racial structures, while trying to preform the first successful heart surgery. A dramatization of the relationship between heart surgery pioneers Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.