The chief officer Merkos, head of a rapid response patrol, one night faces a terrible dilemma: to take to the hospital the rare blood type needed for his wife, who after ten years of anguish and multiple miscarriages is at risk of losing her life and the child she carries, or to save thirty children being transported by a bus driven by an escaped mental patient. Ultimately, duty prevails, the children are saved, but while his wife survives, she loses the child...