Nicholas' Gift is a fact-based drama about an American couple (Jamie Lee Curtis and Alan Bates) on vacation in Italy in 1994 with their two children who are attacked and shot by highway bandits. Shortly they discover that their son (Gene Wexler) (named and based on Nicholas Green) is brain dead. The parents are then faced with the hard decision to donate the boy's organs which ultimately led to saving the lives of seven seriously ill Italian patients.