A mishap during a heart transplant leaves the patient, a wealthy heir, awake and aware of his surroundings. The horror of his experience gives way to a new kind of fear when he learns that his surgeons intend to let him die to seize his fortune.
While undergoing open heart surgery, a man's failed anesthetic leaves him completely alert, but paralyzed and unable to tell his doctors. He experiences a clairvoyant experience that reveals shocking secrets about his wife and his surgeon.