As part of her public health training, Gail receives an eye-opening assignment with the troubled Fuentes family, who live in an impoverished city tenement. The ailing matriarch of the family is pregnant with her eleventh child, while her eldest daughter Helena is also pregnant, and son Damon an addict. To complicate matters, Gail finds hostility and resentment among those she's trying to serve.
—Skip Eastport