There are millions of them. They live in the shadows. They are those who live with chronic pain, often excruciating pain. They are veterans, accident victims, survivors of botched medical procedures, an NFL football player who took one for the team, victims of gunshots, and neighbors down the street. They have few advocates and little medical research to offer hope. There are untrained doctors who don't know what to do with them. Insurance fights them. They are shunned as many of them only have opioids to mask their pain. They exist in a medical system that fails them and a political system that treats them as druggies with medicine from doctors viewed as pushers. This virtually unknown group of victims struggles for respect and dignity and at the very least disability benefits. The documentary tells their stories as they discuss their ordeals with friends, pharmacists and doctors while fighting The System and how they sometimes just give up with suicide being the easiest solution. The documentary also captures leading pain specialists who candidly speak out about our American medical system that has some of the worst outcomes in the world in pain management due to insurance, politics, and medical education. It Hurts Until You Die caps a two-year coast-to-coast journey listening to stories of pain and pain management.