A police officer disguised as a mor lam performer is assigned to protect a doctor who becomes the target of an assassination plot linked to her family's business conflicts.
Families, friends, enemies and lovers experience life-changing events in the large upstate New York city of Port Charles, which has a busy hospital, upscale hotel, cozy diner and dangerous waterfront frequented by the criminal underworld.
A tough, brilliant senior resident guides an idealistic young doctor through his first day, pulling back the curtain on what really happens, both good and bad, in modern-day medicine.
After the attempted attack on a senior police officer, the Special Crime Suppression Unit launches a training camp to identify elite female officers. Among them is Captain Thara, a well-known officer who grows close to Vicky, unaware that Vicky is the daughter of the senior officer linked to her father’s death 19 years ago.