 An East Indian doctor relocates his family to small-town Newfoundland only to discover a community that doesn t trust his skills, qualifications or ability to be their new town doctor. With his disgruntled family threatening to move back to Toronto, the desperate doctor plans an elaborate ruse. He convinces his hostile neighbor to feign a mysterious illness and be his first patient so he can win over the skeptical town. But the doctor lands up in a baffling predicament when other community members are convinced they have contracted the same mysterious disease.