The psychological and physical burdens that cardiac surgeons have to endure are almost unbearable.
There are two opinions. The first is that if you are not fully devoted to cardiac surgery without any other interests, you cannot be a true professional.
The second is that if you do not have an outlet, something else in your life, you will quickly collapse and will not be able to work fully well. At the center of the film is Mikhail Alchibaia, a medical doctor, director of the coronary surgery department of the Bakulev Research Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery and one of the greatest collectors of contemporary art.
