As America enters World War I, Kitty makes the choice to forego a life of wealth and pursue a nursing career at Bellevue Hospital. She catches the eye of Dr. Samuel Hayden, a young physician in charge of the medical wards. As Kitty and Samuel fall in love, the Pandemic Flu of 1918 strikes New York City and the world.
Groomed from childhood to marry into the British aristocracy, can heiress Evangeline Lindenmayer defy her battleaxe of a mother when she falls in love with handsome seminary student Jack Winthrop?