This chapter provides an orienting case of paradigmatic moral heroism, that of Arthur Caballero, who drowned in the process of rescuing a young girl from a river. It then introduces the central theme of the book, which is that understanding and responding to cases like this one with a virtue theory perspective leads to several problems. The book makes this argument, as well as defending an alternative approach to moral heroism that treats it as a kind of moral achievement instantiated in high-stakes sacrificing. The view developed and defended in the book fares better than virtue thinking when it comes to moral heroism in several important respects. The chapter then offers a brief chapter-by-chapter overview of how the argument unfolds.