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Focuses on Carl and Clarence Aguirre, Filipino twins who were joined at the top of their heads until their separation surgery at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx. Happiness of their mother Arlene due to the success of the procedure; Comments of Dr. David A. Staffenberg, the hospital's pediatric plastic surgery chief, on the boys' recovery from the 17-hour surgery; Testing of the boys to determine if there was any brain damage.

Focuses on the announcement of doctors at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City, who operated on Clarence and Carl Aguirre, the two-year-old Filipino twins once joined at the top of their heads. Twins' recovery after the crucial 72-hour-period after their separation surgery in the first week of August 2004; Goal to produce two separate, fully functioning boys.

Reports on the preparations for surgery to separate co-joined twins, Carl and Clarence Aguirre, who are joined at the top of their heads. Surgery which will be performed at Children's Hospital at Montefiore which will be the fourth for the twins and probably the final separation; Demonstrations of how their procedure works from Dr. David Staffenberg and Dr. James T. Goodrich; The gradual separation approach and how it may change the way brain joined twins will be separated in the future.

Reports on the successful separation of the conjoined twins Carl and Clarence Aguirre by doctors at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Start of complicated reconstructive operations; Maintenance of the blood pressure of the twins; Use of a series of operations in an approach to separating joined twins.

Reports on the surgery to separate conjoined twin boys at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in New York. Surgeons who worked to separate Carl and Clarence Aguirre, 2-year-old twins joined at the top of their heads; How, during surgery, it was discovered that the brains were fused; Efforts of surgeons Dr. James T. Goodrich and Dr. David A. Staffenberg to separate the brains; How this procedure differed from other conjoined separations and could change the way these surgeries are performed; Conditions of the boys following separation.