Brilliant but borderline psychotic surgeon does secretive¸ experimental work with limb transplants and tissue rejection drugs¸ much to the chagrin of his surgeon-father. When he crashes his car and his fiancee is decapitated¸ his research - far from complete - is put to the test. His focus then becomes finding an appropriate donor body to make his fiancee whole¸ while the current and failed experiments in his basement laboratory grow restless.