The memoir of an international lawyer who is held in a Communist prison under bogus pretenses in the 1950's and is transformed into a schizophrenic through the use of a truth serum. Follow his story as he plunges into the despair of schizophrenia and re-emerges from it. The stunning part of this tale is that he remembers what happens to him. Psychiatrists have testified that he accurately describes the symptoms induced by truth serums used by Nazi and Communist regimes.