Two maxillofacial surgeons team up to rebuild a 19-year-old's face after removing a tumour, and consultant Aarti Sharma fights to give a mother with incurable cancer more time with her four children.

Eye surgeon Magdalena Popiela fights to save a woman's sight, and for orthopaedic surgeon Clare Carpenter, a wave of emergencies add pressure to an already full day of surgery.

Paediatric surgeon Selena Curkovic is determined to make a life-changing operation happen for an eight-year-old boy, and a spinal surgeon must decide which of two patients gets surgery first.