Nadya is a self-taught nurse who does what she can to ease the suffering of the prisoners.

When Kane comes under her care, she cannot help but empathise with his condition for very personal reasons - and as the guards take him away one last time, she fears he is facing a terrible death. After a daring rescue, Kane is offered a treatment that will change his very nature. Choosing life, for the time being, he goes back for the female who took such good care of him - but his duty to Nadya sets him on a collision course with his own past.

When long-buried secrets are exposed, his self-destruction is inevitable unless true love can save his soul.