居家男人兼电脑分析师乔治•格雷夫斯(Thomas Cavanagh 饰)迎来了他四十岁的生日。在这个后半生的起点上,事业有成且家庭美满的乔治却对未来感到阵阵不安。他担心妻子不忠和朋友的虚情假意,害怕一双儿女误入歧途,甚至生活中微小的细节都能引起他阵阵担忧。 生日的第二天,乔治在妻子珍妮(Kathleen York 饰)的陪同下来到医院做例行的肠道透镜检查。但这项普通的检查却引起了严重的医疗事故。从此,乔治心中的各种担忧开始轮番出现其眼前,在病榻上,他被迫审视和面对自己内心的恐惧和秘密……On the day after his fortieth birthday, the family man and computer analyst George Grieves goes to the Mt. Abaddon Hospital for a routine colonoscopy with Dr. Sharazi. At his birthday party, his friends and family tild many cases of medical errors, and George is worried. After the surgery, George finds that his surgery had complications because of a homonymous patient, and he had received a thoracoscopic sympathectomy instead. While interned, George discloses bizarre and dark secrets about the East Wing of the hospital while his wife and family have to make a decision about his fate.