When actor and monologist Spalding Gray discovers that he has developed an eye ailment, he finds out that the condition can be corrected by a surgical procedure. Intent on avoiding surgery and time in a hospital at all costs, Gray sets out on a quest to find treatment via alternative medicine, which leads him to odd potential changes in his diet, psychic surgeons and sweat lodges. Gray's search for healing also brings him back to his upbringing as a Christian Scientist.
