In 1940s and '50s America, polio is as dreaded as the atomic bomb. Some of the world's best minds are engaged in the race to find a vaccine. Dorothy Horstmann is not focused on beating her colleagues to the vaccine. She just wants the world to have a cure, so she hunts down the monster where it lurks: in the blood. This discovery of hers, and an error by a competitor, catapults her closest colleague to a lead in the race. When his chance to win comes on a worldwide scale, she is asked to sink or validate his vaccine - and how much should be sacrificed, in pursuit of the cure.
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