Seven new faces in seven days.

A team of British surgeons travel to Vietnam to operate on a gropu of adults and children with serious, and in some cases life-threatening, facial deformities and diseases. Vietnam has one of the highest incidences of birth defects in the world, perhaps due to the use of chemicals such as Agent Orange during the war. Niall Kirkpatrick and Simon Eccles travel to Danang hospital where the select seven people to undergo immediate surgery. Four children who were not selected are later accepted to travel to London and undergo surgery there. The surgery is shown in depth and the emotions of the patients and families explored sensitively.