A medical student is admitted to hospital with a mild neck injury, but her condition deteriorates rapidly and she dies in agony. Her classmates conclude that her death was due to malpractice, but they are blocked at every turn in their investigation.

Grand warlord Cao Cao consults the physician Hua Tuo about his chronic headaches. Cao Cao intends to take him on as his personal physician but Hua Tao refuses.