Shy Niklas, who, together with other young men of his age, must undergo the compulsory medical examination preceding the obligatory military service. He feels deeply humiliated and gets seriously traumatized, as he by hazard has the misfortune of being thoroughly examined naked by a young female physician who lives next door to him (and whom he is secretly in love with). This trauma turns his immediate daily life into a nightmare, with both suicide and murder thoughts troubling his confused mind. And he will soon be given a military weapon.