Anesthesist Doug Peeno hopes to pay for the legal costs of preventing his son Bryan being left in his first wife`s bad custody with he proceeds of his present wife Linda`s new job. She`s the first graduate in her family and eagerly accepted a posting as medical officer in a coldly-greedy medical insurance company. Bening confronted with the medically unacceptable consequences of technically denied treatments, she rebels and finds even payments she approved were often withheld anyway.