本杰明想成为一位伟大的医生,对此他深信不疑。但在父亲所在的医院部门的第一次实习,却事事不如意。实践比理论要难得多。责任过重,他的父亲常常缺席,和他一起实习的阿卜杜勒,是位比他经验丰富的外国医生。本杰明将突如其来地直面自己的局限,自己、病人、病人家属、医生及医护人员的恐惧。他的医生生涯的真正启蒙开始了。Benjamin is going to become a great doctor, he is sure of it. But his first experience as junior doctor in his father's service, the Professor Barois, does not turn out the way he hoped it would. Benjamin will be brutally confronted with his own limits, his fears, those of his patients, families, doctors and the staff.