As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy spend their childhood at an idyllic and secluded English boarding school. As they grow into adults, they must come to terms with the complexity and strength of their love for one another while also preparing for the haunting reality awaiting them.

A woman's consuming love forces her to bear the clone of her dead beloved. From his infancy to manhood, she faces the unavoidable complexities of her controversial decision.

Edimburg, 1831. Donald Fettes, un jove estudiant de medicina, arriba a la mansió del doctor MacFarlane, un prestigiós cirurgià i professor, per servir-lo com a ajudant. El sinistre cotxer John Gray és qui proporciona clandestinament al metge els cadàvers que utilitza a les seves classes i en les seves investigacions, cadàvers frescos procedents de les tombes del proper cementiri. Gray aprofitarà la situació per fer xantatge a MacFarlane, posant així, inconscientment, la seva vida en perill.

An adulterous newspaper reporter, who has just experienced a heart attack, pesters a doctor into investigating the questionable medical practices taking place at the hospital where both are residing.

A young doctor returns to his New England home town after a long absence. He visits with the town's kindly old physician, Dr. Cook, a man he has admired since childhood. However, he soon finds out that the old doctor isn't quite what he seems to be, and the young doctor finds his life in danger.