Rahul never thought of being a doctor. He enters medical college by a quirk of fate, impelled by the adulation of his middle-class family. Unsure whether he wants to pursue medicine, he vacillates between indifference and curiosity until he finds himself confronted with the cold reality of death…
Zahi had always wanted to be a doctor. Earnest and serious, she refuses to harbour any doubts or imagine herself doing anything other than medicine. But fuelling her convictions and desire, underneath her fiery demeanour, lurks a secret…
Vivek always knew he would be a doctor. He enters the world of medicine as an entitlement. Born into a family of physicians, inheriting the white apron seems the most natural thing to him. But little does he know that medicine is a calling for which he may be woefully unprepared…
Set in the city of Mumbai, the story traces their lives and loves, their hopes, fears and aspirations, as they wind their way through medical college confronting disease and death, anger and violence, joy and hope. Finding sustenance always in the undying spirit of human beings, they each finally discover their own reason to become healers.