"You can't be what you can't see."

— Dr. Joycelyn Elders, U.S. Surgeon General

Healer is the story of Dr. Joycelyn Elders, which traces her remarkable life from humble beginnings in the cotton fields of Arkansas to national prominence as the first African American Surgeon General of the United States. The film follows her path from being the first in her family to attend college and medical school, to her controversial tenure as the nation's leading medical voice.