
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