Dr. David Little was called to a rich man’s home to examine his young, unmarried daughter. When Dr. Little emerged, he broke the news that the man’s daughter was pregnant. A few years later, the girl died during an epidemic of yellow fever, never having given birth. After her death, the doctor took his slave Moses to the graveyard. They dug and Doctor Little performed her final autopsy. Inside the girl, he found something that would change his life forever.