Beyond Good and Evil

Storyline

1882, Rome, in the Piazza della Minerva Hotel, Paul Rèe leaves his friend Fritz (Friedrich Nietzsche) with a group of prostitutes and in the midst of opium fumes while he goes to a party where he meets Lou Salomé (Lou Andreas von Salomé) an extremely rebellious Russian-Jewish woman.

She enters in a relationship with Paul, but at his marriage proposal, she demands a ménage à trois with Fritz.

The three move into Fritz’s family home, causing his sister Elisabeth’s indignation. Their relationship starts to fall apart and Paul and Lou travel to Berlin to study while Fritz goes to Venice where he becomes a prisoner of his own ghosts and of his desire for his two companions.

Lou will marry Karl Andreas in Berlin but will keep Paul as her chaperone. Fritz tries to go back to his friends but completely loses his sanity.