Hurricane Sienna had swept across the Florida coast, leaving a landscape of apocalypse: torn-off roofs, overturned cars, and streets turned into raging rivers. Now, in the first hours after the storm subsided, a different kind of storm had begun: a human one. Streams of victims poured into overcrowded hospitals and temporary relief centers, where not only were supplies running low, but so were the doctors' resources. It was this crisis that forced Dr. Arthur Price to leave the sterile order of his morgue and immerse himself in the living, groaning chaos.