After rescuing a healthy little girl from a French-German leper village during WWII, John Severson is diagnosed with leprosy and sent into forced quarantine at Louisiana's Witch Tree leprosarium. After escaping from Witch Tree, Severson winds up as the sheriff of Hawaii's Molokai leper colony where he becomes a crusader for its neglected citizens.
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