When violence erupts between two patients; one of them (played by Charles Hill Mailes) escapes the scene in an attempt to avoid capture.
At the climax of the chase; the patient is ultimately soothed by the music emitting from a piano in the main hospital building (Lillian Gish in a minor role) and lets himself be taken away by the guards.
After having come upon a gun he makes his way towards the house of the doctor's wife (during this sequence, the perhaps most interesting part of the film seen out of a technical perspective takes place as the lunatic sticks his head out in front of the camera from behind a tree).
During the farce; the wife puts her hands on the piano by accident, creating a sound which appears pleasing to the lunatic.
The film ends informing the viewer on how music becomes an integral part in aiding mentally unstable individuals.