A black comedy set in the Swinging Sixties (1963-4) and revealed through the diaries of a doctor - 35 years old and still a virgin - whose curious obsessions drive him to start murdering his patients. Doctor Kristal is picky, pedantic and super-sure he's right - not that he would agree. In his consulting room he regards patients with contempt, and on his lonely walks through the graveyard he muses on life and death. His only friend, a doctor approaching retirement, tries to sell him his practice and to interest him in a young female doctor across town - but Kristal is obsessed with two...