A man wakes up in a hospital with a head injury, unsure of where he is, what's happened, or even when it is. A lawyer instructs him to write down what he can remember in a notebook–a confusing demand, given that the man remembers nothing. The man is visited by several figures: a guard who sits idly by, a doctor who questions his memory, policemen who sneers at him, a nurse who mechanically goes through her duty, and his deceased parents who are horrified by what he's supposedly done. Slowly, the man uncovers that he is suspected of having killed four people before trying to kill himself, but he still has no memory of any of those events, nor can he believe that he did those things. The doctor, police, nurse, guard, parents, and lawyers all visit him interchangeably, blending into one another, bewildering the man. The man rises from his hospital bed and discovers that they are all just cardboard people, with their roles written across their cardboard bodies. Although he gets up to go, he's led back to the bed, which is now also cardboard, and he sees himself in the mirror, a cardboard man. He gets to the end of the narrative he's written, presents it to the lawyer as all he remembers, and wonders what can be made of it.