Werner Nielsen, a man in his 30s, saves his life by subjecting himself to a heart transplant. He finds his personality curiously changed. It becomes his obsession to learn all about the donor of his heart, a man who died in a car accident. He seeks out the man's widow disclosing why he came. They fall in love and move in together, and that's when his new heart starts failing him, too.
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