Nietzsche / Zarathustra, the prophet of the new man, or rather of the pagan hero rediscovered by force of his cleverness and will, nearing fifty, begins to feel the fragility of himself and of the ideal he has preached for longtime. Trying to escape signs and premonitions of death, he sets off for a high and far mountain, where he hopes to recover himself and the world in its original integrity. Along this pilgrimage he goes through many unexpected experiences: he meets disciples he didn't know, Buddhist monks, God's seekers, including an old hermit. Meanwhile, in many ways, he finds his faith in a mankind finally master of its own destiny proved wrong, and in his suffering and that of his friends he recovers the spiritual childhood, which, through a outwardly absurd death, will take him back to the one and true God.