The premise here is that stress, illness, and even cell behavior are shaped less by biology than by perception, and the film builds its case in three parts. The first, "The Make-up of Man," gathers researchers including Joe Dispenza and Bruce Lipton to discuss the human frontal lobe, the part of the brain responsible for decision-making and imagination, and what makes it different from other species. From there the film turns to Lipton's claim that the body's 50 trillion cells behave like individual conscious units, each one responding to attitudes and beliefs that were programmed early by upbringing and environment. The argument throughout is that treating illness with pills addresses symptoms while leaving the deeper cause, a person's perception of their own life and surroundings, untouched. Interviews carry most of the film, with experts building toward the idea that changing how people think about stress and health could change their physical condition directly, without pharmaceutical intervention.