New York Times reporter, Charles Platt, falls upon the story of a lifetime after being diagnosed as having an incurable brain tumor. His diagnosing doctor, Rachael Lord, has a less than stellar past. Five years priors, Charles himself, had written a front-page story about the Doctor, a dead geneticist and the Human Genome Project. The good Doctor was eventually cleared of all charges, but a mystery remained as to the whereabouts of the missing genetic map that was supposed to have been completed. Thus Charles journey begin, not only in the pursuit of his story, but ultimately for a lifesaving cure for himself.
