The film opens in 1944, as a young fisherman who has suffered a stroke due to aneurysm is being attended to by a neurosurgeon, Dr. Richard Malmros (Jens Albinus). Malmros operates on the fisherman after injecting him with Thorotrast, a radioactive contrast medium and the operation is a success. However, 42 years later, the patient develops liver cancer and dies. His widow sues the hospital claiming that the Thorotrast caused the liver cancer.

Starring:

Søren Sejersen, Heine Petersen, Jens Albinus, Anne Voigt Christiansen, Nynne Karen Nørlund, Ole Jacobsen, Michael Asmussen, Daniel Hagedorn, Lone Roesgaard, Marianne Hager, Sarah K. Øtrup, Peter Schrøder, Thomas Bendixen, Bent Nielsen, Torben Vestergaard

Genre:

Drama