Hawthorne takes place at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Richmond,VA., where the strong-but-caring director of nursing, Christina Hawthorne, continuously fights battles she often knows she wont win. Whether treating the homeless woman in front of the hospital like a human being or trying to talk a suicidal cancer patient off the ledge, Christina must challenge hospital administrators, heartless doctors, apathetic colleagues and a system that sometimes forgets its there to serve the sick.

Hawthorne takes place at Richmond Trinity Hospital in Richmond,VA., where the strong-but-caring director of nursing, Christina Hawthorne, continuously fights battles she often knows she wont win. Whether treating the homeless woman in front of the hospital like a human being or trying to talk a suicidal cancer patient off the ledge, Christina must challenge hospital administrators, heartless doctors, apathetic colleagues and a system that sometimes forgets its there to serve the sick.