In this story told backwards, the life of Nazi war criminal, Doctor Tod T.Friendly is told from end to beginning. The doctor dies and then feelsmarkedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing themand mangles his patients before he sends them home. Escaping from thebody of the dying doctor who had worked in Nazi concentration camps, thedoctor's consciousness begins living the doctor's life backwards, awareonly that he is living the life of a horrible man at a horrible place intime.