In the same era, as Taiwan recovered from the wounds of World War II, an idealistic young doctor walked away from a high salary and prestigious teaching job to work in his hometown, a backward place stricken by cholera.
同一時代，仍處於二戰終戰後止痛療傷的台灣，一位滿懷熱情與理想的年輕醫師，因為目睹貧困落後的故鄉遭霍亂疫情蹂躪，決定放棄人人稱羨的高薪與教職，返鄉執業。