Dr. Bill Cortner saves a patient who had been pronounced dead, but the senior surgeon, Cortner’s father, condemns his son’s unorthodox methods and transplant theories.While driving to his family’s country house, Cortner and his beautiful fiancée Jan Compton get into a car accident that decapitates Jan. Cortner recovers her severed head and rushes to his country house basement laboratory. He and his crippled assistant Kurt revive the head in a liquid-filled tray. But Jan's new existence is agony, and she begs Cortner to let her die. He ignores her pleas, and she grows to resent him. Cortner decides to commit murder to obtain a body for Jan.
