Betsy's lifelong goal was to go to Africa, to help administer polio vaccines to people displaced from their homes by war, famine, and disaster.

"I have always seen my hands as helping hands," she says.  "And if I had more hands I could help everyone in the world."

A cautionary tale of the limits of human ability, "Helping Hands" is a true-to-life horror story that comes eye-to-eye with the realization that sometimes the willingness to help just isn't enough.