Annie notices that her five-year-old daughter Charlie is not doing well at all. She has a fever, and a bruise has appeared on her body. When she suddenly starts having convulsions and the tips of her little fingers turn black, she is rushed to hospital.

Then a word you’d never want to hear rings out: leukemia.

Charlie is indeed suspected of suffering from this terrible disease. His oxygen, hemoglobin, red blood cell and platelet saturation values are dangerously low. And the worst is yet to come… His immune system is so severely damaged that doctors have little hope.

Annie sits helplessly beside Charlie’s hospital bed. Every minute seems like an eternity, every smile Charlie gives her a reminder of the fragility of life. But we don’t yet know if she has leukemia. Fear, anxiety and uncertainty will mark these interminable days for Charlie’s family.