This novel takes the reader through the two factual experiences of the characters from 1999 and 2023. It shows the tension, fear, friendship, love and danger they faced during military operations alongside the tension, fear, love and anxiety they faced during diagnosis and treatment within the NHS.

The book moves the focal character Stephen Harton through these two life changing events, altering between the decades, placing the reader firmly into Stephen's world, with a descriptive narrative that can place the reader there, as if they were with him.