In an exclusive Kansas City suburb, cardiologist Mike Farrar is suddenly stricken with a powerful and mysterious stomach illness.

The violent and terrifying symptoms are relentless, leaving the man fighting for his life.

Mike’s doctors fight to save him, but they struggle to find the source of the disease that is making him waste away before their eyes.

The answer soon comes when Mike makes a strange discovery hidden away in his wife’s purse – several packets of castor beans, each one warning the user that the seeds are highly toxic.