""The desire for life becomes a wish for death."" Handed a death sentence at news that his aggressive brain tumour has now become untreatable, Tomas Gabino prepares to savour his final days when a second opportunity at life is presented to him. Set amidst a society in which prison overcrowding has reached tipping point and facial transplants have become acceptable, medical science ponders if it can kill two birds with one stone by taking the ultimate step in disease treatment."