Doctors call the process "Spontaneous Healing", which is when a disease, thought to be terminal, simply disappears without medical intervention. Such recoveries are extremely rare and very mysterious. The film examines, how the research results of the young science of "neuropsychoimmunology" can benefit the terminally ill.

In a German special clinic, the film follows cancer patients, who were thought to be hopeless. But now suggestive methods contributed to their reaching astounding health improvements.