A widowed nursing director and mother of a teenage girl struggles to hold the middle ground in a battle between administrators, doctors, and colleagues caught up in a system that’s forgotten who it’s there to serve.
Christina Hawthorne is locked in a battle against forces far too large for any one person to handle. Still learning to cope with the death of her husband and make peace with her powerful and grieving mother-in-law, Christina looks to balance her pressure cooker career with raising a smart but wilful teenage girl as she tries to change a broken system; one patient at a time.
