Season 1 • Episode 10
LatestIn hospitals, a group of people are helping the families of braindead patients understand organ donation and seek consent for the procedure. They are the transplant coordinators. Wen Yu-du is a new nurse just stepping into the field of organ transplant. She has encountered countless challenges, still she overcomes them with her passion for the work. Yet the biggest challenge for Wen’s career as a transplant coordinator is just about to begin.
Acting
Daphne Low's trembling restraint — she says everything without saying it.
Writing
Refuses easy catharsis; every 'yes' to donation costs someone.
Direction
Hospital corridors shot like liminal spaces between life and void.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Taiwan's 2019 opt-out organ donation policy shift made this series culturally urgent — it aired as society debated bodily autonomy after death.
Real transplant coordinators consulted; the show's most brutal scene — Wen rehearsing her pitch in a mirror — was improvised by Daphne Low after shadowing actual nurses.
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