In 2002, Dr. Robert Peters suffers from AIDS and bipolar disease. His husband, Mark Peters, wants to move from Los Angeles, back to Kansas to help his family. Robert makes a suicide attempt. FADE DOWN / FADE UP.
Robert finds himself in Kansas no money, no job, and his patent was lost to foreclosure. He has nothing. Robert makes some calls and finds a medical residency open in Enid, Oklahoma.
Dr. Peters, thrust into an internship at the University of Oklahoma Medical Center in Oklahoma City, must make his way after being out of medicine for 10 years due to his disabilities.
Robert works with another intern, a lesbian, Dr. Dale McCredy who brings her girlfriend to an intern retreat. Thus, she comes out to the interns and staff physicians. After the retreat, the staff physicians treat Dr. McCrety badly and she is ultimately fired.
When Dr. Peters transitions to residency in Enid, Oklahoma he decides to come out of the closet, first to his residency director, then to anyone who asked. The backlash starts immediately.
Dr. Peters goes to the Oklahoma Capitol to lobby that sexual orientation be included in a Nondiscriminatory clause. Rebuked by the Democratic Minority Leader, who tells Dr. Peters the majority rules. Dr. Peters chants, ‘Tyranny by the majority!’
Dr. Peters completes his residency, looks for a job, only to be denied two jobs because he’s gay. Robert has had enough of discrimination and researches the first country to recognize gay relationships… Denmark. He makes a new patent to take to Denmark.
In Oklahoma, Dr. Peters begins to work as an Emergency Room Physician with the Chickasaw Indians. Dr. Peters sees gay discrimination over and over in his job. After applying for spousal benefits for Mark, Dr. Peters is fired. Dr. Peters points out that Indians were treated less than human. Robert redoubles his effort to move to Denmark.