Dr. Kildare's patient suffers from severe pain and bleeding wounds that are similar to Christ's at the Crucifixion, is it a physical affliction or a religious phenomenon?
Sam Barlow, a carefree bachelor, learns from Kildare that he fathered a son nine years ago and that the youth will die unless he donates a kidney. But he refuses to do it.
Young Kildare opens a wound: "My wife gave birth to a freak," says Lanzo, a poverty lawyer, who because of his own poverty and fear of emotional strain on the family, wants to let his newborn daughter, a mongoloid, die.