Secrets and betrayals follow a sudden death in a young photographer's studio. In this explosive exploration of coitus and drug-fueled lifestyle of the creative class in Berlin, being young and dangerous has its consequences.
At the battle of Solferino Joseph von Trotta, a lieutenant in the Slovenian infantry, is wounded while saving the life of the young Austrian Emperor Franz-Joseph I. The Emperor rewards him by elevating him in society to a position quite out of keeping with his social rank, and which entirely alienates him from his farming background: Joseph gets promoted to the rank of captain, and is made a member of the nobility. Years later Joseph von Trotta accidentally finds a description of the battle that changed his life in a text-book belonging to his son Franz. Enraged at the over-emotional, patriotic and sentimental way in which the Emperor's rescue at the hands of "the Hero of Solferino" is depicted, he lodges a complaint at the Imperial Court.
God and the Devil make a bet. Paracelsus, doctor and alchemist, scientist and charlatan, seeker after God and narrator of fariy tales, is allowed to come back to earth to prove that he is capable of winning the love of a woman, having wasted his whole life merely writing about her. Thus he becomes embroiled in the eternal trial between reality and speculation, libido and the rule of the intellect, aiming to swap his pen for his virility and allow his heart to rule over his head.
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