After learning to endure a toxic relationship with his father, a man crafts a ‘good life’ filled with the privileges of success, but only when he finds himself on the other side of death’s door does he find out what it really means to be alive.
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**Producers: **Whit Missildine, Andrew Waits, Aviva Lipkowitz
Content/Trigger Warnings: death, cardiac arrest, medical trauma, explicit language
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