 A group of seventy-five U.S. service members — recent combat veterans suffering from various "nervous conditions" including psychoneurosis, battle neurosis, conversion disorder, amnesia, severe stammering, and anxiety states — arrive at the facility.They are brought into a room and told by an admissions officer to not be alarmed by the cameras, which will make a photographic record of their progress.Next are scenes of interviews between a doctor and some of the patients about their problems and circumstances leading to that point.