The human body is a waste repository for toxins - director Stefan Jarl's body is no exception. An examination of his blood provides evidence of 70 chemicals, while 200 further chemicals are suspected. The detected chemicals include the pesticides DDT and PCB, although both have been banned in Sweden since the 1970s. In the case of women, some of these absorbed chemicals can later be emitted from the body, as the pregnant actress Eva Röse discovers somewhat unpleasantly: Women pass them on to the children they give birth to. Stefan Jarl interviews international scientists to reveal what the chemical industry is doing to the human body, how the body undergoes changes due to chemicals absorbed through ingestion or by physical contact, causing allergies and diseases and disorders such as cancer or autism, bringing about behavioural disorders and generally contesting human reproduction. Has the "metamorphosis" as described by Franz Kafka already begun? Once more Stefan Jarl puts his finger into an open wound as he shows a development that today's experts consider even more threatening than the climate change.