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A severely depressed woman (Jeanne Crain) is in the emergency room. She has tuberculosis and wants to die. However, good Dr. Johnny is on the case...and he'll make her want to live or die trying! And, along the way, romance is in the air!

To say that this is a badly written show is an understatement. It's an abominably written show. The dialog vacillates between being heavy-handed or pure treacle...and I felt almost embarrassed listening to it! To make things worse, there is romance and over-acting! It's so bad that you cannot really compare it to other doctor shows of the day, like "Ben Casey" or "Dr. Kildaire"....they are lightyears better.

Overall, a terrible medical show and fortunately, it was a one-off show...not, fortunately, an actual TV series.

Jeanne Crain's acting is moving, but the story for this medical-themed show is not up to snuff. It plays like a script rejected by "Ben Casey".

She's admitted as a tuberculosis patient, and gets off on the wrong foot with her doctor, played by John Lupton. Jeanne is cynical and feels life is no longer living, but Lupton tries various approaches to get her with the program, ranging from brusque frankness to reverse psychology. Finally he breaks through and she starts taking her medicine and believing in the future.

A fly in the ointment is signaled when an older doctor checks out her various X-rays and determines her case is hopeless -bringing a more educated eye than Lupton. Our hero still believes and works hard on the case, and sure enough she pulls through till springtime and perks up considerably.

Lupton marries her, with all the nurses and fellow patients celebrating, but it looks like the elder doctor was right all along as soon after, without the couple even leaving the hospital to start their new life she has a relapse. Segment's title stems from some flowery (literally) poetry they recite concerning rebirth and nature's way.

Despite the fine acting, piece ends up supporting her character's bout of depression, rather than her period of brief false hopes. Hardly what was intended.