Walk in the Shadow

A child clings to a boat in a stormy sea, and her father swims out in a desperate attempt to save her. On nearing her, he sights another child who is actually in the water, so he attempts to rescue him. On returning to his daughter, Ruth, he sees she has been flung from the boat onto the nearby rocks and is bleeding and unconscious. Arriving at the hospital, he and his wife are told she needs an urgent blood transfusion in order to live. This her father will not consent to, on religious grounds. His wife, distraught, returns to the hospital without him to instruct the doctors to carry out the transfusion. But sadly she is too late and must watch her child die. Infuriated, the doctor brings charges against the father, and the emotionally-charged issue creates rifts and heals wounds before a conclusion is reached.