In this Emmy-Award winning feature, John Travolta portrays Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born with immune deficiencies that forces him to live in absolutely sterile conditions. With his air, food and environment being totally controlled to avoid germs and viruses, Lubitsch must live inside a controlled room or risk catching a fatal illness. Falling for a girl, Lubitsch ponders remaining behind the sterile walls of his room or venturing outside to be with this girl and face certain death.