In August 1945 JACK VANBORN and HUGH STANFIELD have a date for a
bloodbath: the invasion of Japan. En route their reservation is
cancelled by the atomic bombs that end WWII. Awaiting repatriation,
physician aspirant Stanfield gains an introduction to medicine.
VanBorn is discharged in Manila, narrowly escapes assassination and
seizes a share of the postwar construction boom. Back in the U.S.
VanBorn, becomes a real estate developer. Stanfield attends medical
school and becomes an eye surgeon. They are reunited during a ski
holiday in snowbound Aspen, Colorado, when VanBorn's daughter
sustains a fearful eye injury. In this dramatic setting Stanfield
performs a corneal transplant. VanBorn's gratitude knows no bounds.
He builds a surgical operating microscope for Stanfield, who
utilizes it on his way to national renown. The theme of the story
is the cost and sacrifice of unrelenting ambition. It plays out in
part in the 'Valley of the Millionaires, a magical place in
Colorado where the tender love affair between Stanfield and his
wife SUSAN is born and where they examine the endangered future of
their marriage. VanBorn's wife, ALLISON, is a brilliant
pediatrician who ultimately pays
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