Today he is remembered as a legend: a man of courage and steadfastness, a man of both knowledge and justice. He is not known as the saviour of mothers for nothing. But in his own time he was seen in a very different light. The other Hungarian doctors he worked with in the obstetrics clinic in Vienna thought he was mad: he was not interested in the pleasures of the imperial city, he was just doing his job. The Austrian doctors thought him unbearably violent: he had only one goal in mind, the health of the mothers entrusted to him; and for the sake of this sacred cause he broke every rule and every rule. And for his boss, the head of the clinic (László Gálffi), he was the living, unpleasant conscience: because if Dr Semmelweis' theory is true, and the obstetricians are spreading the disease that has killed so many women, then they are all murderers...

And he had a midwife (Katica Nagy) working alongside him, who saw in him what no one else saw: a man who wanted love and peace of mind.