The true story of an operation which was a revolution, not only for the world of medicine. Frankfurt 1967. A young doctor called Lisa Scheel is trying to get a foothold in the male-dominated world of transplant surgery. But after she is passed over by her main professor in favour of a male applicant, on the spur of the moment Lisa heads off to Cape Town. Here, she starts work for Dr. Barnaard, who, like his colleagues in Frankfurt, is planning a heart transplantation. Together with the surgeon Hamilton Naki, who due to apartheid can only join the team secretly, Lisa is a major contributor to the first heart transplant in history.
as Dr. Lisa Scheel
as Dr. Christiaan Barnard
as Hamilton Naki
as McCarthy
as Vijay
as De Groen
as Prof. Kohlfeld
as Rupert von Aigner
as Karin Scheel
as Niekerk
as Moderator
as Van der Straaten
as Ann Washkansky
as Martinek
