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- Produced in both English and Spanish, the film focuses on the López family, now motherless because of tuberculosis. When Consuelo, the daughter of the family, begins to manifest symptoms, she prays fervently, though a priest advises her to seek medical attention. The opening montage portrays Mexican contributions to the American way of life.
- A doctor explains to his children the dangers of tuberculosis, what it is and how to prevent against contracting it.
- The lives of African-American siblings George and Mary are altered when she gets sick with tuberculosis. Mary disregards any advice about home remedies and goes to a doctor, and both she and George find out that organized religion is an important defensive location in their particular community, that warns of the dangers of the previous generation's superstitions and fear of medicine.