Twelve-year-old Willi is brutally beaten by Pesch, his mother's lover, but is afraid not to admit it. His teacher arranges for him to be examined at the clinic.
A politician tries to get his brother-in-law to work as a neurologist in the Black Forest clinic. However, the applicant is known as the "black sheep" among colleagues.
Professor Dr. Theobald Egenheuer has been in the spotlight for years - as an honorable politician and irreproachable moral theologian. On the deathbed, plagued by guilty conscience, he confesses his sins.