When he was diag­nosed with acute myel­oge­nous leukemia, Thel­ma and Ralph Zirkel­bach entered the world of can­cer, encoun­ter­ing both com­pas­sion­ate and uncar­ing staff, med­ical mishaps, tri­umph and tragedy. After a suc­cess­ful thir­ty-four year inter­faith mar­riage and now fac­ing life’s great­est spir­i­tu­al chal­lenge, their reli­gious dif­fer­ences sud­den­ly became Dif­fer­ences. As her hus­band bat­tled can­cer, she fought her own demons and dis­cov­ered unex­pect­ed courage. She lost her hus­band but found herself.