A woman is on her deathbed with a rare type of cancer. There is one drug that the doctors think might save her, recently discovered by a local pharmacist.

The pharmacist is charging $2,000 for a small dose—ten times what it cost him to make it. Heinz, the sick woman's husband, goes to everyone he knows to borrow the money, but he can only get together $1,000.

He tells the pharmacist that his wife is dying and asks him to sell it cheaper or let him pay later. But the pharmacist says, "No, I discovered the drug and I'm going to make money from it."

Desperate, Heinz considers breaking into the man's laboratory to steal the drug for his wife.