Dr. Werner Ernst (Spader) is an overworked, underappreciated intern who only wants what's best for his elderly, comatose patient - until he falls obsessively in love with the ailing man's beautiful daughter, Felicia (Sedgwick). But the seductive Felicia has ten million reasons to let her father "die with dignity" - while her deeply religious sister has her own motives for keeping him alive. Caught between passion and duty, Werner descends into a moral mine field where the physician's god-like powers of life and death depend not on knowing right from wrong... but on having the courage to choose.