Vivien Barner, a bookstore store clerk,is a suffering a tremendous kidney disease and needs a kidney transplantation.This morning she is happy because a donor will give her one of hi kidney.In the hospital she meets her old friend Walter who suffers also a kidney disease (like Vivien he has to go frequently to the hospital for dialysis).But some minutes before the operation , the donor gives up and went away.Vivien is really desperate and Walter says her to fight for her life.She decides to investigate who is the donor and later to convince him to change his decision.She manages to know that the donor is the writer Thomas Shield and that the man lives in a nice house at the seaside.She knows Carl, the gardener who is in charge of the settlement of the garden of the writer.Carl accepts to contract her as his assistant (because he is in love with Vivien).So in the next days Vivien goes to the house of Thomas Shield,they begin to to speak together and to feel well together, but Vivien doesn't tell him that she needs one of his kidneys for her survival.