TV series operates on a different level

Doctors and patients come to terms with life-changing issues in medical drama, Xu Fan reports.

On a sand-swept road in a war-torn Western Asian country, a white jeep with a medical sign whizzes past. When it arrives at a local rescue base, a female doctor springs out of the vehicle and escorts a pregnant 28-year-old patient who is suffering hemorrhagic shock to the operating theater. However, the doctor is facing a difficult choice: Save the patient's life by removing her uterus or take the far riskier option of performing an artery repair procedure.

Simultaneously, in a Shanghai hospital, a young physician insists on following his surgery plan for an elderly patient with a rare malignant tumor, despite opposition from his fellow doctors at the cardiothoracic surgery division.

With the footage switching between the two locations, the story of the two scenarios unfolds.