In the not distant future, Erik Hanssen, an Ojibwe-Norwegian CEO of a high tech company, keeps a routine doctor’s appointment. Without warning, Erik finds himself on a mini-bus headed for a government-run euthanasia center—the fate of older, chronically ill citizens. The US health care system has collapsed under the weight of a last ditch war against global terrorism. With less than a week until Erik’s scheduled death, his daughter, cardiologist Meredith Hanssen, desperately seeks a way to save his life. Her journey takes her from the Northern Ontario wilderness to a military hospital in Chicago where organs are harvested from healthy enemy insurgents to save essential personnel. While Meredith races against time, Erik is on his own journey—a mysterious encounter with his departed Ojibwe grandfather. Memory, tradition, love and obligation—all serve as lures, drawing Erik to a final and surprising resolution.