Jimmy is a young man who likes to go his own way, not bothering or caring what anyone else thinks. Flashbacks show how his "permissive" parents didn't discipline him sufficiently--or, as the film says, neglected the "educational aspect of punishment"--that turned him into the cocky, anti-social, dangerous non-conformist that he is today.
A mad doctor uses patients at his isolated psychiatric institute as subjects in his attempts to create longevity by surgically installing an artificial gland in their skulls.
The old and sick detective superintendent Bärlach has to investigate the murder of his colleague Ulrich Schmied, who was murdered in the middle of the country road.