The patients of the Sacred Heart Hospital for All Ailments are looking for a miracle, and Alice Bhatti is looking for a job.  Alice is a candidate for the position of junior nurse.  She has returned to her childhood home, where her father continues as part-time healer, and full-time headache for the local church. It seems she has inherited some of his gift.

With guidance from the working nurse's manual, and some tricks she picked up in prison, Alice brings succour to the thousands of patients littering the hospital's corridors and courtyard. In the process she attracts the attention of a lovesick patient, Teddy Bunt, apprentice to the nefarious Gentleman Squad of the Karachi police. They fall in love; Teddy with sudden violence, Alice with cautious optimism. Their love is unexpected, but the consequences are not.