Woyzeck is a hapless, low-ranking soldier-alone and powerless within the tribal society round him. He earns extra cash by participating in medical experiments, however throughout one such experiment his psychological well being begins to deteriorate and he begins to expertise a sequence of apocalyptic visions. Assaulted from all sides by forces he can not management, Woyzeck takes issues into his personal arms when he finds his spouse has been sleeping with one other soldier.