The action of the picture takes place within the walls of the cardiosurgical department of the Omsk Regional Clinical Hospital, where patients with cardiovascular diseases become the heroes. What is the price of the risk of a cardiac surgeon who decides to operate on a “hopeless” patient, and what is behind this? What does a doctor feel when an 11-month-old baby is on the operating table? What do patients feel and what do they think about when they have to undergo the most complicated open-heart surgery, including the so-called “hopelessly ill”?