Boston theatrical director Thomas Smith is having an affair with Danish nurse Eva when he becomes involved with Irene, the lustful wife of Jason Porter, an actor playing the lead role in Smith's new play about the death of Socrates. Meanwhile, Jason, an atheist, meets Mary, a prostitute with religious obsessions. Walking in a cemetery with Mary, Jason taunts her by lying in a grave and blaspheming--then he suddenly dies of a heart attack. Terrified, Mary runs from the cemetery, encounters actor Duncan Cartwright, whom she believes to be Jesus Christ, and falls into religious ecstasy. Dr. Zimmerman, Mary's psychiatrist, also runs into Cartwright and has a similar religious experience, believing the actor to be Sigmund Freud. A motorcycle accident that leaves Irene dead and Smith unconscious and paralyzed prompts Eva to disconnect his heart-and-lung machine to end his misery. Unable to cope with her guilt, Eva wanders into a playground where a group of children push her in a swing until she is happy again, not knowing that Dr. Zimmerman has scheduled a lobotomy for her.

Director:
Richard Hilliard	Director
Cast:
Rees Vaughn	as Thomas Smith
Inger Stratton	as Eva
Edmon Ryan	as Jason Porter
Andrea Blayne	as Mrs. Porter
Loretta Leversee	as Mary
Richard Kilbride	as Father Williams
Marian Blake	as Mrs. Williams
Carol, U. S. White	as Virginia Williams
Peter MacLean	as Dr. Ronald
Conrad Jameson	as Dr. Jacques
Roger Talbot	as John
Stanley Greene	as Clayton
Philip Brown	as Fishback
Sol Schwade	as Dr. Zimmerman
Ethel Shutta	as Mrs. Cartwright
Paul Schmidt	as Duncan Cartwright
Cinematography:
Urs Furrer	Director of Photography
Writer:
George Garrett	Screenwriter
Producer:
Richard Hilliard	Producer
Music:
Elliot Kaplan	Music

Filmed in Boston.

Inspired by the novel My Brother Death by Cyrus Leo Sulzberger (New York, 1961).