During one of her classes on anatomy, the body of David, a young man whom Paula encountered on her train to Heidelberg, turns up on her dissection table.

Paula finds that David's body bears strange incisions and decides to investigate the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death.

She then attacks a figure that enters her room, but it turns out to be her friend Hein, who is seeking consolation over his recent breakup from his girlfriend Gretchen.

Grombek reveals that Paula's grandfather was a member of the Society, and that the drug which he became famous for developing was the result of his experiments in Nazi concentration camps.

In a mid-credits scene, two of Paula's classmates praise Hein's abilities in dissection and preservation, discuss Grombek's imminent replacement, and how they will keep a low profile in their respective practices while experimenting for the Anti-Hippocratic Society.

Anatomy opened on 386 screens and grossed 3.9 million Deutsche Marks over the four-day weekend from 320,000 admissions, placing fourth at the German box office.

[10] Dennis Schwartz from Ozus' World Movie Reviews gave the film a grade B, calling it "both eerily written and directed".