Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, people with severe mental illness who receive psychiatric services from Dr. Fumi Mitsuishi’s clinic in San Francisco are dying at a rate 13 times higher than that of the general population. After the death of one of her own patients, Dr. Mitsuishi struggles to process the loss of a life that reminds her in many ways of her own. Her journey leads her deeper inside herself, where she confronts the common humanity that fuels her life’s work.