A New York City nurse's raw account of the mounting distress and heartbreak within her COVID-19 ICU at the height of the pandemic. Starting in April 2020, as cases surged in the City and decimated its hospitals, the series records post-shift, late-night phone calls between an advanced ICU nurse and her close friend. SURGE is a rare look inside a hospital mired in fear and confusion, and at a savage disease that devastates both patients and the medical professionals who care for them.