Most of us are born in hospitals, and most of us will die there too. But hospitals remain sprawling, mysterious places - sources of dread and fear that remind us of our own mortality.

While media reports concentrate on miracles and highly trained specialists. Hospital City shifts the focus away from high-profile doctors and introduces us to people no less essential - the workers, without whom no hospital could function.

Shot at the Health Sciences Centre in St. John's, Newfoundland, this documentary reveals the workings of a contemporary health-care facility. Accompanied by hospital staff, we travel through miles of corridors, labs, pharmacies, supply rooms, operating theatres, and patient rooms - from the maternity ward to the morgue.

As debate in Canada rages over funding cuts and a health-care system said to be in crisis, Hospital City is a moving, human portrait of the people whom the debates most closely touch.