Santa Fe, 1989.
In the high desert capital of natural wellness, a junior reporter with something to prove is handed a throwaway assignment: three healthy women, all suddenly paralyzed by a mysterious illness no doctor can explain.

Tamar Stieber isn’t supposed to dig. She’s supposed to churn stories. But after years of playing it safe — in her career, her marriage, her life — she knows a dead end when she sees one. And this isn't it.

Dismissed by doctors as early menopause, food poisoning, or anxiety, the women’s symptoms—violent spasms, extreme fatigue, nausea—point to something darker.

As Tamar pushes deeper, she uncovers a hidden network of greed, lies, and regulatory blind spots at the heart of the booming supplement industry. What begins as a local health mystery becomes one of the biggest scandals in American consumer history — and a landmark investigation that would win her journalism’s highest honor.

Based on the true story behind the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation that rocked the wellness world.