In 1980s Salt Lake City, as a mysterious new illness begins devastating the gay community, a socially awkward but brilliant young doctor, Kristen Ries, refuses to turn patients away, even as fear, stigma, and institutional resistance mount around her. Working alongside Maggie Snyder, a fiercely compassionate nurse who becomes her indispensable partner in care, Kristen helps build a lifeline for those no one else will treat. As the crisis escalates, Kristen and Maggie risk everything to keep their patients alive—improvising treatments, bending rules, and quietly redistributing medication in a system that’s failing the very people it’s meant to protect. But the relentless toll of loss threatens to break even their deepest convictions, forcing them to confront not only the limits of medicine, but the cost of caring. Through it all, an unexpected love takes root. For Kristen, who has always trusted her instincts as a physician but never believed she deserved love or a life lived openly, that connection becomes the most radical act of all. KRISTEN + MAGGIE is a powerful true story of defiance, devotion, and the quiet courage it takes to love in the face of unimaginable loss—and to finally believe you deserve it. Based on the Emmy-winning Sundance documentary QUIET HEROES.