Twin brothers are born in Ethiopia of a secret union between a beautiful
Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. They are orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, they come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. It moves from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again. The two brothers fates are forever intertwined.