Breakthrough
Breakthrough raconte la quête d'un scientifique renégat pour trouver un remède au cancer, la maladie qui a tué sa mère. Le Texan Jim Allison est lauréat du prix Nobel 2018 pour avoir découvert comment inciter le système immunitaire d'un patient cancéreux à vaincre sa maladie, mais pendant des décennies, il a mené une lutte souvent solitaire contre le scepticisme douloureux de l'establishment médical.
Distribution
Woody Harrelson
Narrator (voice)
Jim Allison
Self
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