This film chronicles the fifty-year battle against cancer, centering on Thomas Navarro. In 1999, the four-year-old was diagnosed with brain cancer and subjected to conventional treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation, despite his family's desire for a proven alternative offered by Texas doctor Stanislaw Burzynski. The Navarro family's conflict with the FDA serves as a powerful example of the need for medical freedom and highlights the ongoing failures of the War on Cancer since it began in 1971, even into 2009.