Cancer has become the n°1 burden of industrialised countries today. "It is as though a World Trade Center towers were to fall down on our society every day". This is how a retired American scientist described the reality of Cancer in the United States. One of the "survivors", Clifton Leaf, chief editor of "Fortune" magazine has published a book on the subject and wonders why we're losing the war… An ambitious documentary that takes stock of the situation - a story set against the backdrop of international political ambition.