Trauma teams at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto know that some lives are damaged and lost despite all efforts to save them, causing families and medical staff alike to question the roll of a higher power or fate in the course of a trauma’s unfolding events. One man's recent turn to god may not save him from the drug wars that have landed him in trauma with two life-threatening bullet wounds, while the simplest pleasures for a schoolteacher may alter the course of his life forever. A church-going woman is convinced her fate is in god's hands, and her surgeon agrees; while a young teen's fall form a building could be the life-changing event she needs to survive.