| Dr. Don Clark returns to his hometown to live with his brother Junior
after being away several years at Stanford Medical School. He returns
to interview for a position with the prestigious Kacey Jones Orthopedic
Clinic. He finds himself being pulled in opposite directions when
he tries to satisfy two worlds. Burdening the smiling hypocrisy of
the corporate Medical field he both envied and despised and the harsh
realities of urban life that he adored and detested.
He finds himself in direct conflict with a childhood monster, Jermain
Qartier, who has little respect for life and eventually destroys
everything dear in his world, his wife-to-be, an adopted son, and
his poor old mutt. Professionally Dr. Clark has to suffer through
agonizing conflicts with an indifferent and cruel boss, who resents
the fact that an African American has been accepted to his elite
fellowship program.
Dr. Clark slowly but surely loses his grip with reality and commits
murder. He meets Charles Schaffer, a lawyer, whose reality is also
evaporating before his eyes. Dr. Clark’s troubles are so deeply
interwoven with his past that in order to fully understand his overwhelming
circumstances he digresses, sending us through a world of simple
truths about race, relationships, redemption, and forgiveness.
Much to the chagrin of Charles Schaffer, who looks for a way to
find leniency in an old friend and nemesis, Lincoln Ward. Together,
Don and Charles come to revelations and remedies, to help each other
and eventually build a bond of friendship and camaraderie.
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