Christine [text removed] was dying from a rapidly spreading cancer when she decided that, somehow, she would will herself better. She is one of three people in this film who have made extraordinary recoveries from illnesses diagnosed and confirmed as terminal. Can the mind -through faith or will-power or meditation - so affect the body that it can stop the progress of a normally fatal disease? The three women in the programme - and there are more such 'recoveries' among women than men - are convinced that the mind can triumph. After all, they point to themselves as living proof. Michael Dean asks doctors how did they do it? Was it medicine or miracle? Freak or faith?