A young man is put in the psychiatric ward of a hospital.
Following a failed suicide attempt, Paul, a young man, is sent to a psychiatric hospital. In a state of shock, he refuses to eat and drink. After a while, in order to make him go straight, the doctors have him transferred to ward B, where the methods used are more brutal and the patients more dangerous. Paul finally yields and becomes the "obedient madman" he is supposed to be.—Guy Bellinger