This documentary explores some of the biggest issues facing America—aging, war, poverty, prisons—through the work and lives of five nurses: Jason Short, who works with housebound patients in Appalachia; Tonia Faust, whose prison hospice program allows inmates serving life sentences to care for their fellow inmates; Naomi Cross, who coaches an ovarian cancer survivor through the Caesarean delivery of her son; Sister Stephen, who runs a nursing home where the entire staff comes together to sing for dying residents; and Army veteran Brian McMillion, who rehabilitates wounded soldiers returning from war.