这是30多年以来纽约市验尸官杰克Stapleton的大学毕业典礼上几乎一样长，因为他一直保持联络，与以前的同学肖恩多尔蒂和凯文莫里。一旦被高度认可的眼科医生，杰克的生涯就一个戏剧性的转变在发生一场悲惨的意外事故，毁掉了他的家庭。然而，这也非常过去：杰克和他的同事remarried-to长期验尸官劳丽蒙哥马利的父亲——是一个小孩子。
尸体检验年轻的大学生刚刚接受脊椎指压治疗者，使杰克调查替代医学。是什么使得一些人外面解决医疗机构的医生寻求东方哲学的人文关怀，甚至信心的疗愈者吗？
杰克的同学肖恩多现在是一个著名的考古学家和圣经学者大都会博物馆的现代艺术。他最近获许在最终挖圣彼德在Rome-despite长期怨恨天主教Church-and已经取得了惊人的发现与巨大的教会和医学的影响。
当凯文·默里主教教区现在纽约，得知肖恩的研究结果，他会不顾一切地阻止他们公众。凯文具有较强的政治野心教会内部，但他的协会和肖恩威胁要破坏。凯文转向他的老朋友杰克帮助保护一个爆炸性的secret-one与力量来改变永远活着。
It's been more than thirty years since New York City medical examiner Jack Stapleton's college graduation and almost as long since he's been in touch with former classmates Shawn Doherty and Kevin Murray. Once a highly regarded ophthalmologist, Jack's career took a dramatic turn after a tragic accident that destroyed his family. But that, too, is very much in the past: Jack has remarried—to long-time colleague and fellow medical examiner Laurie Montgomery— and is the father of a young child.
A post-mortem on a young college student who had recently been treated by a chiropractor, leads Jack to investigate alternative medicine. What makes some people step outside the medical establishment to seek care from practitioners of Eastern philosophies and even faith healers?