Meredith Droeger

Meet nine-year-old Kelly Marble. She never really meant to kill her parents.

Now in his sixties, Joe is released from the hospital after a long battle with pneumonia and forced to confront the harsh reality of his legacy: everyone he knew had assumed he was dead, and life had gone on around him without missing a beat. Returning to his old neighborhood in Chicago's 'Patch' district, he finds his car gone, all his worldly possessions pawned by his landlord, and the apartment he's lived in his entire adult life rented out to a single mother and her eight-year-old daughter.

会社員として成功を収めていたジョン・クロウリーは、2人の子供が糖分を分解できないポンペ病と診断される。妻の協力を得て、ジョンはキャリアを捨て、型破りな専門家であるロバート・ストーンヒル博士とチームを組んでバイオテック企業を設立し、子供たちの命を救うための治療法を開発する。ストーンヒル博士は、自分が医学界の "黒い羊 "となった理論を証明しようと懸命に努力するが、思いがけない2人の間に強い絆が生まれていく。