An introduction into Nietzsche's life and thinking with
 particular regard to his productive years in Sils Maria

Friedrich Nietzsche is presented in this essayistic documentary film as an equally fascinating and controversial philosopher whose influence reaches far beyond the boundaries of the academic world. As a representative of perspective thinking he is regarded
as a pioneer of modernism and postmodernism. Of utmost importance to his life and work was the tiny Swiss village Sils Maria, the only place that he visited again and again during his nomadic years and where many of his works were created. 
 
The film conveys a tangible impression of the area and how this
charismatic place has influenced Nietzsche's thinking and feeling.
For the first time in a film are shown in detail some of the scribbled
sheets from the period of his so-called mental derangement at the clinic in Jena. One of these papers has Nietzsche called his "testament" which is now kept in a Swiss bank safe.

The majority of the speakers in the film are academics related to the Nietzsche-Haus in Sils Maria.