Based on his book by the same title, G. Edward Griffin tells the story of an amazing substance that, despite its potential to effectively fight cancer, most sufferers will not know about it, and their doctors will not offer it to them. That substance naturally occurs in nature in hundreds of edible plans, but it has been banned for use in the treatment of cancer in the United States, Australia, New Zealand, and many other developed countries.

This is a video adaption and documentary based on the book World Without Cancer. It explains the scientific rationale for Laetrile therapy and presents evidence that cancer, like scurvy or pellegra, is a deficiency disease. It is not caused by the presence of some mysterious virus or X-factor, but by the lack of an essential food factor which, increasingly, is deleted from the menus of modern man. The native diets of those cultures where cancer is rare is examined and found to be 200 times more rich in the substance than the diet of industrialized society.

The missing food factor is called amygdalin or vitamin B17, but in its concentrated and purified form developed specifically for cancer therapy, it is known as Laetrile. Included are dramatic case histories of terminal cancer patients who have recovered using Laetrile therapy.