How is it possible that a poor nation like Cuba, can achieve health indicators on a par with the world's richest nations? In several fields of medical research: New vaccines, new therapies, and ground-breaking anti-cancer agents, this small Caribbean nation is challenging the pharmaceutical empires of the West.

How is it possible that Cuba has achieved so much with so few resources? How can one of the world's poorer nations offer to help the US, the world's richest, to cope with Hurricane Katrina? Cuba offered to send hundreds of doctors to New Orleans in 2005.

At a time when public health systems are in crisis, with a tide of privatisation gripping the globe, this documentary looks in depth at one health system that is swimming against the currents of corporate globalisation.

From Havana to Haiti, from Cape Verde to Venezuela, and 68 countries across the globe, lives have been saved and public health systems strengthened by Cuban medical teams. One of US group studying medicine in Cuba observes that "Cuban doctors are in so many countries.. it is amazing, but you never hear about it!" In this documentary the amazing story of the Cuban health care system is told.