One night when seeking his estranged wife, Hoffmann goes to the youth center where she works       The police are there rounding up radicals who frequent the center - Hoffmann runs into the building and ends up being shot in the head       He awakens with brain trauma, partially paralyzed and unable to speak       The police accuse him of stabbing an officer; the radicals herald him as an innocent victim of police brutality       During his slow recovery at the hospital, Hoffmann must piece together his life and struggle to remember the events of that night