In The Company Of Strangers is the story of a young man in trouble with the law who is sentenced to 600 hours of community service in an AIDS hospice. There it is hoped he will learn tolerance and compassion. While there, he helps to reconcile a dying man with his estranged son. At the same time, the young man reconnects with his own distant father.

In her pursuit to synthesize a breakthrough stem-cell based treatment for lymphatic cancer, a clinical researcher takes up her assistant's offer to go rogue, and finish their last run of experiments clandestinely.