Eve Jackson, a busy medical office receptionist, is alarmed about her sister Hetty's well-being, and takes two weeks off work to tavel north to Raleigh, NC to help her. She finds Hetty gravely ill and calls an ambulance. She is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia and placed in Intensuive Care. After a course of antibiotics Hetty is released by the doctors, and the two sisters spend an all too brief reunion before tragedy overshadows them, abruptly ending their time together. Eve stays in Raleigh another month to see the end of the police investigation of Hetty's murder, and gains some closure for her grief, finally seeing justice done.