While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned hand surgeon awaits the opportunity to perform the nations first hand transplant, but in the meantime--in the aftermath of an acrimonious divorce--is seduced by his housekeeper. A married Wisconsin woman offers the reporter her husband's left hand, but her husband is alive and healthy.
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