Toul ar C'hoat (Châteaulin / Finistère) is a place of welcome  not as the others. Teenagers live a schooling adapted to the rhythm there which imposes them their disease: the epilepsy. They stay there because the school, the friends, but also the family do not any more succeed in bringing the necessary comfort, paralyzed by the fear of the stranger which conveys this multifaceted, deaf and invisible disease. I watch living these young people, I listen to their enjoyment, their sadness; and tent to cut court in the fantasy.

In an overcrowded and dilapidated hospital in Kiev (Ukraine), English neurosurgeon Henry Marsh and his Ukrainian colleague Igor Petrovitch struggle to help a host of patients with severe epilepsy or life-threatening brain tumours. Forced to operate in difficult and challenging circumstances, Henry and Igor must share their patients' most fervent hopes and deepest fears, and face the human consequences of the life-and-death choices which they, as surgeons, are often compelled to make.