CU of X-ray tube, PAN to elderly man receiving X-ray. Shots of country nurse checking on patients in waiting room, of nurse examining boy for lice. PANs of Quebec winter countryside, small village nestled in the distance. Shots of doctor walking up to cabin in wood, of horse's face, nostrils coated with frost, of nurse and doctor clad in fur coats, plodding through snow in forest on way to patient. MLS of two lumberjacks at work in forest.