On an unusually warm day in November, in the middle of a college campus, a young man is struck with a crazy urge to take off his clothes. Paul, a student at the college, has become manically obsessed with a philosophy paper he has written, and decides that he must return to innocence in full view of his girlfriend’s office building. Soon he finds a crowd of onlookers gawking at him, and is apprehended by the campus police. They don’t realize he’s having a nervous breakdown, or that he hasn’t slept in ten days. What follows are humorous episodes of Paul’s bouts with madness, and his deep philosophical conflicts. His affair with an older woman sets up a forbidden love triangle that eventually drives Paul over the edge, and lands him in a mental hospital. He experiences many strange and funny episodes in the hospital, until he returns to sanity, and goes back home.