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The work of Leiden professor Bastiaans on dealing with the trauma of war victims attracts the attention of filmmaker Louis van Gasteren He decides to make a film about the psychotherapeutic treatment with LSD of a former concentration camp prisoner in the clinic of Bastiaans Patient Joop is arrested in September 1941 and begins a long hellish journey through various camps until he is liberated by the Russians When he returns to his wife he has become a completely different man Joop suffers from nightmares and is incapable of normal human contact With two cameras Van Gasteren records approximately six and a half hours of the first treatment that Joop undergoes with Bastiaans four more will follow later Special attention is paid to details Joops hands the sweat on his forehead a tear running slowly down his cheek Van Gasteren reduces the recordings to more than an hour