Toby Nelms is an ordinary eight-year-old boy who needs a routine operation. Thankfully, his surgery is a success and he goes home. But, months later, Toby's life begins to fill with terror and he keeps bursting into tortured screams. Toby has begun to relive every moment of his operation . . . including the immense pain.
Neurosurgeon Zack Iverson must discover why Toby is re-experiencing his past surgery in every detail . . . and what horrifying secret is being hidden by the hospital where he had his operation. And Toby isn't the only patient who is experiencing this strange effect after surgery. Iverson needs to find out the truth quickly, before an innocent child dies - and before another patient is wheeled into the operating room, to experience every slice of the scalpel.